A fracture is widening in the already volatile Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands. British Muslim leaders have publicly condemned Islamabad’s latest cross-border strikes, framing them not as counter-terrorism operations but as a threat to regional stability. This is a strategic pivot that demands scrutiny.
For weeks, Pakistan has escalated its aerial bombardment of what it calls ‘terrorist hideouts’ inside Afghanistan. But the condemnation from within the United Kingdom exposes a soft underbelly in the Western alliance against extremism. These strikes are not merely a bilateral spat.
They are a threat vector that could destabilise the entire subcontinent.
