For decades, Pakistan nurtured the Taliban for strategic reasons. It recognised it as a legitimate government and provided military assistance. Now, the same Taliban is biting the hand that fed it. This is how the Afghan Taliban is compounding Pakistan's woes from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.

A Taliban government official said the airstrikes Pakistan launched on Afghanistan Tuesday killed 46 people, including women and children, according to The Associated Press.  Hamdullah Fitrat, the

The Pakistani military conducted air raids potentially killed dozens while targeting alleged Pakistani Taliban militants in the rural Paktika Province of Afghanistan Tuesday night.