Pakistan’s latest airstrikes on militant targets inside Afghanistan risk further escalation — analysts

ISLAMABAD: Continued military action by Pakistan and Afghanistan against each other risks entrenching a “cycle of retaliation” rather than curbing militancy, analysts warned on Sunday, following Pakistan’s latest cross-border airstrikes in Afghanistan. Pakistan’s information ministry said the overnight strikes involved “intelligence-based selective targeting of seven terrorist camps” and described them as a retributive response to recent militant attacks inside Pakistan.

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