​Pakistan carried out fresh overnight airstrikes on Kabul and several Afghan border provinces early on Friday, killing at least six people including children in the capital and the eastern province of Nangarhar, as the three-week-old conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbours resumed its deadly course one day after China’s special envoy held separate consultations in both Islamabad and Kabul that had briefly raised hopes of a pause in hostilities.
The strikes, confirmed by Pakistani security sources as targeting four “terrorist camps and support infrastructure” in Kabul, Kandahar, and the southeastern province of Paktia, also destroyed a fuel depot belonging to … Read More