Several terrorist attacks have already claimed the lives of Pakistani and Chinese citizens. Pakistan had conducted airstrikes in Afghanistan, stating that its aim was to target Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

The Pakistani military conducted air raids potentially killed dozens while targeting alleged Pakistani Taliban militants in the rural Paktika Province of Afghanistan Tuesday night.

A Taliban government official said the airstrikes Pakistan launched on Afghanistan Tuesday killed 46 people, including women and children, according to The Associated Press. Hamdullah Fitrat, the deputy spokesperson for the Afghan government,

Taliban officials report that at least 46 people were killed in Barmal, a remote mountainous district of Paktika, because of overnight aerial bombing that allegedly was conducted by Pakistan