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Pakistan launches deadly airstrikes in Afghanistan
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Following Beijing's stepped up mediation efforts, no Pakistani air strikes were reported by either side in over a week until the bombing in Kandahar.
Tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban regime sharply escalated in late February, further heightening regional instability and raising concerns about the risk of a prolonged conflict.
Cross-border clashes between the two countries intensified on February 26, two days before US, Israel attacked Iran.
Pakistan’s airstrikes in Afghanistan showed its overwhelming superiority in conventional warfare, but the Taliban have refined a lethal repertoire of guerrilla tactics.
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Pakistan said on Saturday that it shot down a number of drones fired by the Taliban in Afghanistan amid an ongoing war between the neighboring countries. Some of the drones targeted Pakistan's military headquarters in Rawalpindi,