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FILE- Pakistani refugees at Gulan camp, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the border in the restive Khost province, Afghanistan on Jan. 19, 2015. Pakistan fired off a sharp warning Sunday, April 17, 2022, to Afghanistan's new hardline religious rulers to stop sheltering homegrown Pakistani Taliban militants, who have been staging increasingly deadly attacks against the country's military. The warning followed Afghan reports that Pakistani aircraft late Friday carried out bombing raids in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost and Kunar provinces, killing civilians. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)
FILE- Pakistani refugee children at Gulan camp, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the border in the restive Khost province, Afghanistan on Jan. 19, 2015. Pakistan fired off a sharp warning Sunday, April 17, 2022, to Afghanistan's new hardline religious rulers to stop sheltering homegrown Pakistani Taliban militants, who have been staging increasingly deadly attacks against the country's military. The warning followed Afghan reports that Pakistani aircraft late Friday carried out bombing raids in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost and Kunar provinces, killing civilians. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)
FILE - Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sept. 7, 2021. Islamabad warns Afghan Taliban rulers their territory is being used by homegrown Pakistani Taliban who have stepped up attacks against the country's military. The warning followed Afghan reports that Pakistani aircraft overnight Saturday, April 16, 2022, carried out bombing raids in Afghanistan's western Khost and Kunar provinces. The Taliban's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said civilians were killed in the bombing raids although no official numbers have been released. (AP Photo/Muhammad Farooq, File)
FILE- Pakistani refugees at Gulan camp, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the border in the restive Khost province, Afghanistan on Jan. 19, 2015. Pakistan fired off a sharp warning Sunday, April 17, 2022, to Afghanistan's new hardline religious rulers to stop sheltering homegrown Pakistani Taliban militants, who have been staging increasingly deadly attacks against the country's military. The warning followed Afghan reports that Pakistani aircraft late Friday carried out bombing raids in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost and Kunar provinces, killing civilians. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Pakistan warned Afghanistan's hard-line religious rulers on Sunday to stop giving shelter to the Pakistan Taliban, who have staged increasingly deadly attacks against the country's military.

The warning was issued after Afghan reports that Pakistan carried out bombing raids in Afghanistan, killing civilians.

Pakistan accused the Afghan Taliban of doing nothing to stop attacks against it in Afghanistan.

Extremists are using Afghan soil with impunity to carry out activities inside Pakistan, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry.

The Taliban swept to power in Afghanistan last August after the US ended its war in the country. The world has been pressed to engage with the Afghan government by Islamabad.

It is not clear whether Shahbaz Sharif will be as supportive of the Afghan Taliban as his predecessor, the conservative Imran Khan, who was ousted last weekend in a politically tumultuous no-confidence vote.

On Saturday the Taliban Foreign Ministry called in Pakistan's ambassador to complain of civilians killed in the bombing raids it said happened late Friday, killing refugees in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar and Khost provinces.

The Taliban warned Pakistan not to test the patience of Afghans on such issues and not to repeat the same mistake again, otherwise it will have bad consequences.

TOLO News, Afghanistan's largest news channel, showed images of children's bodies it said were killed in the airstrike. Hundreds of people in eastern Khost province protested against Pakistan and shouted anti-Pakistan slogans.

Pakistan has not confirmed an attack on Afghanistan, and the Taliban rulers have not done enough to stop the Taliban from attacking Pakistan.

In the last few days, there have been a lot of incidents along the Afghan border. The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for the ambush that killed seven military personnel last week.

Since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, there has been an increase in militant attacks in Pakistan. The attacks have been claimed by either the Pakistan Taliban or the Islamic State group, both of which are based in Afghanistan.

According to the executive director of the Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies, the number of militant attacks in Pakistan has gone up by more than half this year. The attacks have gotten worse. In Pakistan, 155 people have been killed in such attacks so far this year, compared to 68 last year.

The border between the two countries is known as the Durrand Line. The ethnic Pashtun population of the region are often divided between the two countries by the Durrand line. The British established the border in the 19th century, but successive Afghan rulers have refused to recognize it as the official border, instead laying claim to the territory of Pakistan.

Afghanistan's Taliban clashed with Pakistan over a border fence after taking power.

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