New Delhi: In early October, Pakistan launched airstrikes inside Afghanistan — targeting Kabul, Kandahar, and Paktika — claiming to hit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants.

Instead, civilians, including women, children, and young cricketers, were killed. Kabul retaliated, killing 58 Pakistani soldiers.

For the first time, Afghanistan was bombed not by a superpower, but by its neighbour, once a haven for its refugees.

According to a report by The Diplomat, the strikes, meant to project power, instead exposed Pakistan’s fragility.

Rawalpindi’s generals are repeating an old playbook: using external aggression to mask internal decay, the report said.

For decades, Pakistan has blamed instability on others — India, Kabul, or the West — while nurturing militant proxies that now threa

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