{"id":76522,"date":"2026-02-27T21:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/feb\/27\/pakistan-afghanistan-taliban-war-cross-border-kabul-latest-news-updates"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:32:19","slug":"our-patience-has-now-run-out-pakistan-declares-open-war-against-afghanistan-after-cross-border-attack-live-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76522","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan declares \u2018open war\u2019 against Afghanistan after cross-border attack \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closed, you can read our full report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/27\/pakistan-declares-state-of-open-war-after-bombing-major-afghan-cities\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both sides are reporting they have inflicted heavy casualties on each other, but it is difficult to know the true numbers when they are presenting sharply divergent figures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pakistan\u2019s<\/strong> information minister Attaullah Tarar <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TararAttaullah\/status\/2027155065153454560\">claims <\/a><strong>133 Afghan Taliban fighters were killed<\/strong>, with more than 200 injured. <strong>Of its own soldiers, Tarar <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TararAttaullah\/status\/2027099860445630736\">says<\/a> that two were killed<\/strong> in the cross-border fighting, while three were injured.<\/p>\n<p>The UK is deeply concerned by the significant escalation in tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan. We urge both sides to take immediate steps toward de\u2011escalation, avoid further harm to civilians, and re\u2011engage in mediated dialogue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/feb\/27\/pakistan-afghanistan-taliban-war-cross-border-kabul-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closed, you can read our full report hereBoth sides are reporting they have inflicted heavy casualties on each other, but it is difficult to know the true numbers when they are presenting sharply divergent figures.Pakistan\u2019s informatio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,60,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76526,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76522\/revisions\/76526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}