{"id":61252,"date":"2024-01-18T15:26:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T06:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/18\/pakistan-launches-retaliatory-strikes-in-iran-aimed-at-separatist-militant-group"},"modified":"2024-01-19T00:37:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T15:37:49","slug":"pakistan-launches-retaliatory-strikes-in-iran-aimed-at-separatist-militant-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61252","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan hits separatist \u2018hideouts\u2019 in retaliatory strikes against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drone and missile attacks in Sistan and Balochistan province come after Iran struck sites inside Pakistan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><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#top-of-blog\">Middle East crisis: live updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pakistan has launched retaliatory strikes against militants in Iran in response to attacks by Tehran that targeted sites within Pakistan\u2019s borders, heightening fears of further instability across the Middle East and surrounding region.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Pakistan\u2019s foreign office early on Thursday said it had undertaken \u201ca series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision military strikes against terrorist hideouts\u201d in the Sistan and Balochistan province of Iran, adding that \u201ca number of terrorists were killed during the intelligence-based operation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/18\/pakistan-launches-retaliatory-strikes-in-iran-aimed-at-separatist-militant-group\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drone and missile attacks in Sistan and Balochistan province come after Iran struck sites inside PakistanMiddle East crisis: live updatesPakistan has launched retaliatory strikes against militants in Iran in response to attacks by Tehran that targeted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"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-61252","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\/61252","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61268,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61252\/revisions\/61268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}