Rejecting Taliban's claim that Islamabad allowed its airspace to the US for the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri last month in Kabul, Pakistan Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmad termed the allegations "highly regrettable". "In the absence of any evidence, as acknowledged by the afghan minister himself, such conjectural allegations are highly regrettable and defy the norms of responsible diplomatic conduct," he said on Sunday, in a release, while expressing deep concern about the statement by the Taliban.

In a televised video address, POTUS Biden confirmed the killing of the top terrorist in Kabul. According to Biden, justice was delivered to the victims as he was also involved in the September 11 (9/11) attack where nearly 3,000 people were killed in a series of four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks. "At my direction, the United States successfully conducted an airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed the emir of al-Qa’ida: Ayman al-Zawahiri. Justice has been delivered and this terrorist leader is no more," Biden had said in a video address earlier this month. Soon after Biden's statement, Taliban government spokesperson Mujahid confirmed the attack was carried out on July 31 and added that the nature of the incident found that "the strike was carried out by an American drone. However, a month later, the Taliban refuted the reports of the recovery of Zawahri's body by the Taliban and added they were investigating all angles.