{"id":76517,"date":"2026-02-27T11:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/27\/afghanistan-pakistan-strikes-kabul"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:23:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:23:30","slug":"pakistan-strikes-kabul-hours-after-afghanistan-attack-on-border-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76517","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan bombs Kabul after intensifying border clashes with Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Escalation of violence between the volatile neighbours makes a Qatar-mediated ceasefire appear increasingly shaky<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan bombed Afghanistan\u2019s capital of Kabul and two other provinces on Friday, hours after a cross-border attack, the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/21\/pakistan-strikes-militant-hideouts-on-afghan-border-after-surge-in-attacks\">escalation of deadly violence<\/a> between the volatile neighbours who signed a Qatar-mediated ceasefire in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Following months of tit-for-tat clashes, Afghan forces attacked Pakistani border troops on Thursday night in what the Taliban government said was retaliation for earlier deadly airstrikes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/27\/afghanistan-pakistan-strikes-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escalation of violence between the volatile neighbours makes a Qatar-mediated ceasefire appear increasingly shakyPakistan bombed Afghanistan\u2019s capital of Kabul and two other provinces on Friday, hours after a cross-border attack, the latest escalation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[46,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76517","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76521,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76517\/revisions\/76521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}