Pakistan Continues 200+ Missile Strikes on Kunar — 3 Civilians Killed, 12 Injured; Afghanistan Summons Pakistani Envoy; Taliban Urges Halt via UK Diplomat; 22 TTP Killed in Khyber IBOs

April 30, 2026: Pakistan's military intensified operations under Operation Ghazab lil-Haq, conducting over 200 missile and artillery strikes on Kunar province in the 24-hour period surrounding April 30. Afghan officials reported at least 3 civilians killed and 12 injured in Kunar, including women, children, and elderly residents. Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) continued to frame all operations as 'precise and intelligence-based' counterterrorism strikes targeting Afghan Taliban and affiliated Fitna al-Khawarij (TTP) positions, denying civilian impact. In a significant diplomatic escalation, Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Pakistani Embassy's Chargé d'Affaires in Kabul to deliver a formal protest, characterizing Pakistan's strikes as violations of Afghan sovereignty, airspace, and territorial integrity — the second formal protest in three days following the April 28 Asadabad university strike. Taliban senior official Abdul Wasi met with UK Special Envoy Richard Lindsay on or around April 30, during which Wasi urged an immediate and unconditional halt to Pakistan's military strikes. Wasi condemned Pakistani operations on civilian and educational infrastructure, citing the April 28 Sayed Jamaluddin Afghani University strike as evidence of systematic targeting of civilian sites. The Taliban framed its call for dialogue through the UK envoy as an effort to internationalize pressure on Pakistan following Beijing's silence on the university strike. Separately, Pakistan's ISPR announced 22 Fitna al-Khawarij (TTP) militants were killed in intelligence-based operations in Khyber district on April 30. Pakistani security officials attributed these operations to cross-border infiltration attempts by TTP elements using Afghan territory as a staging area — consistent with the North Waziristan cross-border engagement of April 25-27 that killed 71 TTP fighters. On the Afghan side, an Afghan shelling incident in the South Waziristan border area on April 29-30 injured five Pakistani civilians, representing one of the more serious Afghan-initiated ceasefire violations since the Urumqi non-escalation framework took hold in early April. Pakistani border forces described the incident as grounds for retaliatory action. The Urumqi Round 2 follow-up meeting, expected to take place by end of April per initial Chinese mediation timelines, was not confirmed as having occurred. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had not publicly addressed the Asadabad university strike or the ongoing April 28-30 escalation cycle as of end of day April 30. The non-escalation framework established through the Urumqi process is effectively inoperative: Pakistan has conducted strikes in Kunar and Kandahar on 7 of the last 8 days, Afghan Taliban has responded with cross-border artillery in South Waziristan, and formal diplomatic channels are in protest mode on both sides.