Pakistan bombed Taliban regime targets in Afghanistan on Feb. 27 with Islamabad’s defense minister describing the situation as “open war.”
The strikes hit the capital of Kabul and the city of Kandahar, where Taliban leaders are based. It was the first time Pakistan had attacked the Taliban rather than terrorists allegedly backed by them.
The Taliban said it launched its attack across the border into Pakistan late on Feb. 26 in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes on Afghan border areas on Feb. 22.
Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said in a Feb. 27 post on X that the Taliban had turned Afghanistan into a colony of India following the departure of NATO forces….
Pakistan in ‘Open War’ With Afghanistan After Airstrikes, Defense Minister Says
