Pakistan Threatens Taliban, Denies Civilian Strikes After Children Killed

After years of unsuccessful diplomacy and perceived treachery, Pakistan's Defense Minister Khwaja Asif has claimed that there is no longer any hope with the Taliban rule, calling them an unreliable "ragtag group" with no code of behavior and declaring that Islamabad is permanently writing them off. His comments were made mere hours after Afghanistan claimed that on November 24, 2025, Pakistani drones attacked civilian residences in Khost province at midnight, killing ten people—nine of them children and one women. The Taliban describe this as a planned assault.