#FirstpostPoV: Pakistan carried out airstrikes on Afghan targets in the Khost province in a renewed escalation of tensions between the two neighbours. The Taliban claim the strikes killed at least 10 people, including nine children. What triggered this fresh escalation? Will the Taliban retaliate to these strikes? Afghanistan expert and visiting scholar at Queen's University Belfast, Prof. Michael Semple, answers in conversation with Firstpost's Prathik S Vinod. | Firstpost