In response to media queries regarding Pakistan’s recent airstrikes on Afghan civilians, India’s foreign ministry has issued a statement “unequivocally” condemning any attack on innocent civilians. 

It also added that, “It is an old practice of Pakistan to blame its neighbours for its own internal failures”.

Pakistani military aircraft bombarded Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province on December 26th, killing at least 46 people, most of which were children and women. 

The Afghan Taliban had said that it would retaliate.

“Afghanistan considers this brutal act a blatant violation of all international principles and an obvious act of aggression,” Enayatullah Khowrazmi, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence, said in a statement. “The Islamic Emirate will not leave this cowardly act unanswered.”