Security Code : How Iran’s airstrikes on Pakistan have brought Middle East proxy war too close to home

Trapped between the imperial ambitions of Britain, Iran and the Soviet Union, the Baluch rebelled through the twentieth century in search of autonomy. General Pervez Musharraf’s military regime sought to use jihadists to turn the course of the insurgency away from Pakistan, and point it at Iran. He created the foundations for the ethnic-Baluch Islamic State groups now waging war on Iran—but a frustrated Tehran is now hitting back

Read Praveen Swami's column here : https://theprint.in/opinion/security-code/irans-dramatic-airstrikes-on-pakistan-have-brought-middle-east-proxy-war-too-close-to-home/1927388/