Pakistan said it launched strikes on seven militant sites inside Afghanistan in a "retributive response” to recent suicide attacks it said were carried out by Afghan-based extremists, as tensions escalated between the two South Asian neighbors.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers said they are preparing “an appropriate and calculated response” to Pakistani air strikes that killed at least 18 people in Nangarhar and Paktika provinces.

  • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I was gifted a nytimes subscription, and I learn about this stuff from lemmy. God how the nytimes sucks now they don’t even bother reporting on stuff.

  • TriplePlaid@wetshav.ingEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Ironic that Pakistan provided so much funding to the Taliban over the years only to one day see themselves fighting the Taliban. A familiar story…

    Sounds like there will be more to come in this conflict. I really don’t see what Pakistani leadership hopes to solve long term by repeating mistakes of other countries (carrying out imprecise strikes with complete disregard for collateral damage) which led to intractable conflict rather than solutions in Afghanistan in the past.

    • red_green_black@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Ultimately just having Khyber Pakhtunkhwa fully secure is the militaries goal. Pakistan’s Military does not really care who rules Afghanistan, just don’t let terror groups that attack Pakistan free range to work there.