Facing severe regional backlash over its reckless military actions, a heavily isolated Islamabad found itself in the crosshairs as Afghanistan's Ministry of Defence announced that its air force carried out precision airstrikes on ISIS positions inside Pakistan's Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces.
On Tuesday, the strategic retaliation followed growing international condemnation of Pakistan's persistent pattern of externalising its internal failures through violent cross-border aggression.
