{"id":61222,"date":"2024-01-17T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T01:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/16\/iran-launches-airstrikes-on-sunni-militant-bases-in-pakistan"},"modified":"2024-01-17T10:23:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T01:23:56","slug":"iran-strikes-militant-bases-in-pakistan-in-latest-middle-east-flashpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61222","title":{"rendered":"Iran strikes \u2018militant bases\u2019 in Pakistan in latest Middle East flashpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan says attacks killed two children in \u2018unprovoked violation\u2019 of its airspace, adding to regional instability sparked by Israel-Gaza war<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2024\/jan\/17\/middle-east-crisis-live-news-updates-israel-gaza-palestine-hamas-war-iran-strike-pakistan-sunni-us-red-sea-crisis-houthi-missile-attack\">Middle East crisis: latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran has launched airstrikes on Pakistan territory, apparently aimed at a Sunni militant group, in the latest sign of a wave of violence rolling across the Middle East and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s foreign ministry said two children were killed and three others were injured in what it called an \u201cillegal\u201d airstrike, and summoned Tehran\u2019s senior diplomat in Islamabad to protest against the \u201cunprovoked violation of its airspace\u201d. The ministry did not give more details of the strikes, but Pakistani social media accounts said missile and drone strikes had been aimed at the Balochistan province which lies along the 1,000km border between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/16\/iran-launches-airstrikes-on-sunni-militant-bases-in-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan says attacks killed two children in \u2018unprovoked violation\u2019 of its airspace, adding to regional instability sparked by Israel-Gaza warMiddle East crisis: latest updatesIran has launched airstrikes on Pakistan territory, apparently aimed at a Su&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[448,212,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61223,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61222\/revisions\/61223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}