{"id":76743,"date":"2026-03-18T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/18\/pakistan-hopes-cost-airstrikes-taliban-protect-terror-attacks"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:30:17","slug":"pakistan-hopes-steep-cost-of-airstrikes-on-taliban-targets-will-protect-against-terror-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76743","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan hopes steep cost of airstrikes on Taliban targets will protect against terror attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say attacks on Afghanistan are \u2018defensive, not offensive\u2019 but carry a risk of spiralling cycle of violence<\/p>\n<p>An escalating Pakistani campaign of airstrikes against targets in Afghanistan is aimed at forcing the Taliban authorities to abandon their support for Pakistani militants, according to officials and experts.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy is to impose such a steep cost on the Taliban administration that they act to prevent attacks emanating from Afghanistan. Yet it carries the risk of spiralling violence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/18\/pakistan-hopes-cost-airstrikes-taliban-protect-terror-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say attacks on Afghanistan are \u2018defensive, not offensive\u2019 but carry a risk of spiralling cycle of violenceAn escalating Pakistani campaign of airstrikes against targets in Afghanistan is aimed at forcing the Taliban authorities to abandon their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5192,"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-76743","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\/76743","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\/5192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76744,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76743\/revisions\/76744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}