This is a quote from Pakistan’s ‘defence minister’ from a couple of hours ago. There is a shooting war on the Durand line, and the PAF has bombed Kabul and Kandahar, including the airport, Taliban ministry buildings and other non-military targets.
This round of AfPak hostilities kicked off with a ‘surgical airstrike’ by Pakistan into Afghanistan that resulted in multiple civilian deaths. The Taliban retaliated by attacking Pakistani border outposts on the Durand Line, and claim to have captured more than a dozen of them, with Pakistani POWs and KIA. In response, the PAF has now bombed Kabul and Kandahar.
The Taliban, the erstwhile creation of the ISI, is now at war with Pakistan. Where does this go from here?
two erm threads on the same topic.
That is Kabir’s though.
I wrote up mine quite a while earlier, but it was stuck in “pending review”.
The Taliban, the erstwhile creation of the ISI, is now at war with Pakistan.
Not quite
Jimmy Carter and his National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski armed mujaheddin (jihadists) who would later become the Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS.
This was a proxy war against the Soviets who were also an occupying Army, no different from the US occupation.
For over forty years Afghanistan has been a humanitarian disaster. Between 562,000 and 2,000,000 civilians were killed and millions of Afghans fled the country as refugees
Carters Afghan war lead to the destruction of that developing nation. Afghan women were launched back into the future of the 13th century, and the war killed over a million Afghan men, women and children.
Carters chickens hatched into the attacks on the U.S. of September 11, 2001 (9/11)
The Soviets should not have been occupying Afghanistan, Neither should the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
The other side of the story
“After the withdrawal of NATO forces, it was expected that there would be peace in Afghanistan and that the Taliban would focus on the interests of the Afghan people and peace in the region,” Asif said. “However, the Taliban turned Afghanistan into a colony of India. They gathered all the terrorists of the world in Afghanistan and began exporting terrorism.”
“Pakistan made every effort to keep the situation normal through direct means and through friendly countries. It engaged in full-fledged diplomacy. But the Taliban became a proxy for India,” he alleged.
https://www.rt.com/india/633106-afghanistan-has-become-indian-colony/
Pakistan lacks credibility on this topic.
Afghanistan will strike back asymmetrically – drones and terror attacks.
They already did – Drone attacks, multiple spots in Pakistan, including Islamabad of all places.
Pak bans all drones in airspace in response to the risk.
Somewhat unrelated, but figured this is best shared under an open thread, not sure if it needs its own post.
https://x.com/AmitMajmudar/status/2027221885348376691
Apparently an ‘officially’ released ISPR video that describes Afghans as ‘not knowing much more than how to operate a tandoor’.
https://x.com/aliaftabsaeed/status/2027300389268443610