Ten people were also injured when mortar shells fired from Pakistan overnight struck villages in Afghanistan's Khost province, said Mustaghfar Gurbaz, a spokesman for the provincial governor. He said several homes were destroyed.

Sola Mahfouz was threatened with acid at 11 for attending school in Kandahar, taught herself mathematics and physics in secret from the age of 16, crossed into Pakistan to sit the SAT, and is now a quantum computing researcher at Tufts University.

Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of destroying a Kabul drug treatment hospital, with hundreds reported dead or injured, while Pakistan says it targeted militant sites, intensifying cross-border tensions.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi in a phone call that disputes between Afghanistan and Pakistan should be resolved through

Pakistan has bombed a fuel depot of Kam Air, a private airline, near Afghanistan's Kandahar airport, as stated by the Afghan Taliban spokesperson. This incident represents a significant escalation in the ongoing conflict between the neighboring countries.