{"id":76524,"date":"2026-02-27T23:19:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/27\/pakistan-declares-state-of-open-war-after-bombing-major-afghan-cities"},"modified":"2026-02-27T23:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:19:35","slug":"pakistan-declares-state-of-open-war-after-bombing-major-afghan-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76524","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan declares state of \u2018open war\u2019 after bombing major Afghan cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wave of strikes comes after Taliban forces attack Pakistani border troops following earlier action from Islamabad<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has bombed major cities in Afghanistan including the capital, Kabul, with Islamabad\u2019s defence minister declaring that the hostile neighbours were in a state of \u201copen war\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/27\/afghanistan-pakistan-strikes-kabul\">a cycle of retaliatory attacks escalated further<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses in Kabul and Kandahar, the southern Afghan city, reported explosions and jets overhead until dawn, while the Taliban government said later that Pakistani surveillance aircraft were still flying over Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/27\/pakistan-declares-state-of-open-war-after-bombing-major-afghan-cities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wave of strikes comes after Taliban forces attack Pakistani border troops following earlier action from IslamabadPakistan has bombed major cities in Afghanistan including the capital, Kabul, with Islamabad\u2019s defence minister declaring that the hostile &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5190,"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":[46,60,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/76524","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\/5190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76525,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76524\/revisions\/76525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}