Pakistan hits ‘terrorist hideouts’ in airstrike on Iran, killing three women, four children

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PAKISTAN HAS SAID it had carried out strikes against militant targets in Iran, after Tehran launched attacks on Pakistani territory earlier this week. Iranian state media reported three women and four children were killed in explosions in the country’s southeast. “This morning Pakistan undertook a series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision military strikes against terrorist hideouts in Siestan-o-Baluchistan province of Iran,” a foreign ministry statement said, adding that a “number of terrorists were killed”. “This morning’s action was taken in light of credible intelligence of impending large-scale terrorist activities.” The attack comes after Iran confirmed carrying out strikes...