A look at what is behind Iran and Pakistan’s air strikes

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Open this photo in gallery: The flag of Iran over its consulate building in Karachi, Pakistan, on Jan. 18.AKHTAR SOOMRO/Reuters This week’s air strikes between Iran and Pakistan that killed at least 11 people marks a significant escalation in fraught relations between the neighbours. Long-running, low-level insurgencies on either side of the border have frustrated both countries, and the apparent targets of the strikes – Iran’s on Tuesday and Pakistan’s response on Thursday – were insurgent groups whose goal is an independent Baluchistan for ethnic Baluch areas in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The question is why Iran and Pakistan would...