Rare Pakistan Airstrikes on Taliban Show Tension After U.S. Exit
- Pakistan airstrikes in Afghanistan killed more than 40 people
- Taliban warned Pakistan with retaliation if more attacks occur
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Pakistan’s rare airstrikes inside Afghanistan over the weekend that killed more than 40 civilians show simmering tensions with the Taliban following the U.S. withdrawal from the region.
Saturday’s cross-border strikes, the first in decades, elicited an unusually sharp response from the militant group in Kabul and a warning that more such attacks would stoke retaliation. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry claimed only that it clashed with members of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, an off-shoot group known as TTP which operates across the border between the two countries.