Decoding Pakistan’s 2024 Airstrikes in Afghanistan
Was Pakistan’s military gambit across the Durand Line a clever maneuver or a spectacular miscalculation? The question hangs heavy over the volatile and still-contested Afghan-Pakistani border as a dangerous cycle of escalation unfolds. In December 2024, Pakistan launched airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Khost and Paktika provinces, targeting suspected Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan strongholds. The ruling Afghan Taliban’s aggressive rhetoric — threatening retaliation — was followed by border skirmishes as Taliban forces fired across the Durand line. The Tehrik-e-Taliban answered with a brazen escalation of its own: the abduction of several Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission civilian workers, raising the stakes in a dangerous cycle The post Decoding Pakistan’s 2024 Airstrikes in Afghanistan appeared first on War on the Rocks.
Was Pakistan’s military gambit across the Durand Line a clever maneuver or a spectacular miscalculation? The question hangs heavy over the volatile and still-contested Afghan-Pakistani border as a dangerous cycle of escalation unfolds. In December 2024, Pakistan launched airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Khost and Paktika provinces, targeting suspected Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan strongholds. The ruling Afghan Taliban’s aggressive rhetoric — threatening retaliation — was followed by border skirmishes as Taliban forces fired across the Durand line. The Tehrik-e-Taliban answered with a brazen escalation of its own: the abduction of several Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission civilian workers, raising the stakes in a dangerous cycle
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