Bangladesh, May 22 -- On 11 May, the Foreign Office (FO) of Pakistan summoned the Afghan charge d'affaires in Pakistan and issued him a "strong demarche" in the wake of a terror attack at Fateh Khel police post in the Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on 9 May. In the attack on the police station, 15 police personnel were killed, and 3 were injured.

Warning the Afghan charge d'affaires, the FO stated that "it was impressed upon the Afghan side that Pakistan reserves the right to respond decisively against the perpetrators of this barbaric act." The terror attack and the subsequent diplomatic action raise serious questions about the claims made by Islamabad about its recent military operation against Afghanistan. On 13 May, meanw...