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 first cross-border strike inside Afghanistan since March came after a spate of attacks by the Pakistan Taliban.