Taliban government rejects claims Pakistan suicide attack was planned in Afghanistan

People gather around a burned armored vehicle at the damaged police checkpoint following a car bombing attack by militants in the Fateh Khel area of Pakistan’s Bannu on May 10, 2026. (AFP)

• Claim that suicide attack was planned in Afghanistan is baseless — Taliban government spokesman

KABUL: Kabul’s Taliban authorities rejected on Tuesday claims by Islamabad officials that a suicide attack which killed 15 police officers in northwest Pakistan was planned in Afghanistan.
The Afghan government “considers the recent statements by Pakistani officials, which claimed that the attack on the police station in Bannu was planned in Afghanistan, baseless,” government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid posted on his official X account.