Pakistan faces unprecedented resurgence of Taliban violence

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/12/30/pakistan-faces-unprecedented-resurgence-of-taliban-violence_6736547_4.html

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9 comments

  1. Haven’t Pakistan been bombing Afghanistan over the last 2-3 weeks?

    Ethnically speaking, the Pashtuns in the Khyber Pakhtunwa region are the same as the majority Afghans.

    The Durand Line drawn in 1893 by British was never accepted by the Afghans (Karzai and others have reported to say that’s an unacceptable solution).

    Taliban has significant presence and influence in the Khyber Pankhtunwa, Sindh and Northern Balochistan. The TTP (Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan) carries out violent attacks regularly

  2. Earlier this week, Taliban government spokesperson said that Pakistan had shelled four districts in Barmal district in eastern Paktika province.

    According to him, the total number of dead was 46 people, most of whom were children and women. In a statement, the Defense Ministry condemned the strikes and said it would not leave “this cowardly act unanswered.”

    A senior Pakistani security official, said the strikes targeted “terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan using jets and drones.”

    It is important to note that this strike came after the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and sharing a common ideology with their Afghan counterparts, had shortly before claimed an attack on an army outpost near the border with Afghanistan, which, according to Pakistani intelligence, killed 16 soldiers.

  4. Has the ISI lost any control they once had over their Taliban clients?

  6. “I never thought the leopards would eat *my* face”

  7. But but there are no Americans there, I thought the fighting in the region was always our fault?

  8. Dont ever forget that the Pakistanis were dancing in the streets after the US retreat in 2021.

    Even the most educated liberal Pakistanis were thumping their chests in “victory”.

  9. Pak military paid accounts in social media are threatening to invade Afghanistan now and honestly that would be the funniest way for Pakistan to balkanise: at the hands of their own proxies.

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