Residents of Kabul reported seeing an unidentified drone flying over the capital Sunday morning, amid rising tensions along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Witnesses told Amu TV the drone appeared over the city around 11 a.m. local time, though its origin and purpose remain unclear. The sighting came just hours after Pakistani drones reportedly struck parts of Spin Boldak district in southern Kandahar province, near the border with Pakistan. Details about casualties from the airstrikes were not immediately available.
The drone activity and airstrikes follow a night of heavy clashes between Taliban fighters and Pakistani border forces along various stretches of the contested frontier. Taliban on Sunday claimed to have killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in retaliatory attacks after earlier Pakistani airstrikes, while Pakistani officials accused the Taliban of harboring militants and escalating hostilities.
Pakistan has often asked the Taliban to act against Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Afghanistan. Taliban have denied the presence of TTP in Afghanistan but a UN monitoring group reported in September that the group has at least 6,000 fighters in Afghanistan.
