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‘Truce broken’: Taliban official claims Pakistani strikes hit Afghanistan, three locations bombed
On Saturday, explosions rocked Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, just as the Taliban's foreign minister started his official visit to India. After the explosions, the violence escalated dramatically.
Mehsud took over the leadership of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in 2018 after his three predecessors were killed by U.S. drone strikes. By then, Pakistani army operations had largely driven the group out of their former strongholds and into Afghanistan.