Pakistan Shelling Kills 4 in Afghan Kunar Province

Mortar and rocket fire from Pakistan struck civilian areas including a university in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding dozens more, according to Afghan officials. The attacks targeted Asadabad, the provincial capital, as well as nearby districts, with local authorities reporting damage to the Sayed Jamaluddin Afghani University and residential neighborhoods.

Afghan deputy government spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat said the strikes wounded women, children and students, describing them as "an unforgivable war crime." Kunar Information and Culture Director Najibullah Hanafi reported seven dead and 85 wounded, while the Ministry of Higher Education noted about 30 students and professors injured at the university, where buildings sustained extensive damage. Other accounts from local officials put the toll at three killed and 45 wounded. Pakistan's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting rejected claims of a university strike as a "blatant lie" and "frivolous and fake," stating that its operations are "precise and intelligence-based."

The incident marks the first major cross-border attack since China-mediated talks in Urumqi earlier...