At least 30 civilians, including women and children, were killed in the early hours of Sunday after Pakistan Air Force jets reportedly carried out air strikes on Matre Dara village in the Tirah Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Eyewitnesses described the assault as a massacre, flattening entire homes and leaving dozens trapped under rubble. Intelligence sources said China-supplied JF-17 Thunder jets dropped eight LS-6 precision glide bombs across the civilian settlement, with no verified militant presence.

The operation has renewed criticism of Pakistan’s military, exposing a pattern of targeting civilian populations under the pretext of counter-terror operations. Analysts warn that such attacks deepen Pashtun resentment and risk fuelling further anti-state militancy.

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