{"id":76701,"date":"2026-03-16T02:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/15\/pakistan-targets-militant-hideouts-afghanistan-conflict"},"modified":"2026-03-16T02:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:08:36","slug":"pakistan-targets-militant-hideouts-in-afghanistan-as-conflict-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76701","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan targets militant hideouts in Afghanistan as conflict continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan government reports zero casualties and accuses neighbouring country of wanting to \u2018fuel the fire of war\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has targeted militant hideouts in Afghanistan\u2019s Kandahar province overnight, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/21\/pakistan-strikes-militant-hideouts-on-afghan-border-after-surge-in-attacks\">fighting that erupted between the two neighbours<\/a> late last month showed no signs of abating.<\/p>\n<p>The cross-border attacks, which have included Pakistani airstrikes in Kabul, are the deadliest yet between the countries. Islamabad has referred to the conflict as an \u201copen war\u201d, adding to concerns about regional stability as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/14\/how-iran-war-escalate-vietnam-trump-netanyahu-us-israel\">US-Israeli conflict with Iran<\/a> engulfs the Middle East and beyond.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/15\/pakistan-targets-militant-hideouts-afghanistan-conflict\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan government reports zero casualties and accuses neighbouring country of wanting to \u2018fuel the fire of war\u2019Pakistan has targeted militant hideouts in Afghanistan\u2019s Kandahar province overnight, as the fighting that erupted between the two neighbours&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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-76701","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\/76701","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76702,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76701\/revisions\/76702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}