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Pakistan Airstrikes Kill Hundreds in Afghanistan
Pakistan has escalated a bombing campaign against Taliban-linked militant targets inside Afghanistan, with the death toll from strikes hitting 400 — including a hit on a Kabul rehabilitation centre where patients were eating dinner. Pakistan flatly denies striking a hospital, insisting it targets only military sites, but the Taliban have accused Islamabad of killing civilians, threatening a spiral of cross-border violence. The campaign is designed to make Taliban support for Pakistani militants so costly that Kabul cuts them off.
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