Afghanistan launches airstrikes on Pakistan following Pakistan's weekend strikes
Afghanistan's Taliban regime launched airstrikes into Pakistani territory on Monday, days after Pakistan conducted its own strikes on militant targets in Balochistan. The conflict has killed hundreds of people as Pakistan accuses the Taliban of sheltering Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan militants, while neighboring India has condemned Pakistan's actions as reckless aggression threatening regional peace.
Indian Government
India condemned Pakistan's weekend airstrikes in Afghanistan as a reckless and blatant act of aggression, warning that the strikes threaten regional peace and calling for restraint in the escalating conflict.
Pakistan Military
Pakistan's military maintains that the rockets launched from Afghanistan are part of a broader militant campaign by the TTP, which they claim the Taliban government shelters, prompting their preemptive strikes against militant targets.
- The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan was founded in 2004 after splitting from the main Afghan Taliban movement.
- Balochistan province contains significant copper and gold reserves that India and other nations have sought to develop.
- Afghanistan and Pakistan share one of the world's longest unguarded borders, complicating cross-border security efforts.
India-Pakistan-Afghanistan Three-War
India and Pakistan are locked in an intensifying standoff over Kashmir and cross-border militancy, which has now merged with a full-scale war between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban. Pakistan has declared an "open war" against the Taliban, launching Operation Ghazab lil Haq with extensive air and ground strikes, while Afghanistan has retaliated with its own airstrikes and drone attacks on Pakistani military positions.
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