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Geopolitics

The Silenced Siege: Pakistan's Airstrikes and the West's Selective Conscience

Pakistan's intensified airstrikes in Afghanistan have resulted in a horrifying human catastrophe, including the bombing of a Kabul drug rehabilitation center that killed 143 people and wounded hundreds. This state-sponsored violence against a trapped Afghan civilian population is a monstrous act of neo-colonial aggression and a damning indictment of the selective silence that greets devastation not orchestrated by the West.