Pakistan -- Durand Line and Other Problems

[shaberon]

As you may recall, last year, machine gun fire mowed down a considerable quantity of the Indian public. Result was a brief skirmish with India targeting certain areas, believed to be infested with Lashkar e talib, a group that says because India once belonged to the Mughals, it belongs under a Muslim government.

Pakistan has been hopped up for at least thirty years by the CIA to form ideal conditions for militant tribal camps.

One consequence is a huge separatist movement, the Baloch Liberation Army, which has already inflicted huge damages.

In the past month, multiple suicide bombings happened in Pakistan. Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for one. Others are blamed on:

...seven camps and hideouts belonging to the Pakistan Taliban, also known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and its affiliates.

Islamabad says the TTP operates from inside Afghanistan, a charge the group denies.

In attempts to strike this group, Afghanistan says they attacked civilians.


Now, there are state versus state acts of war:

Kabul announced it had initiated large-scale offensive operations against Pakistani military positions along the disputed Durand Line border.

Taliban officials described the operation as a "retaliatory" measure against recent Pakistani airstrikes earlier in the week, which they claimed killed at least 18 people, including civilians, in eastern Afghan border regions.

Taliban's government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed that Pakistan had carried out airstrikes not only in Kabul but also in the southern province of Kandahar and the southeastern province of Paktia.

It's the worst powder keg.

It's the most vital area for BRICS-related commerce; has the highest potential for whatever the common good may turn out to be.

It would be nice if it turns out there is nothing to add to this post; unfortunately, there are so many issues that it may not be easy to contain.

[thirtythree]

Posted by shaberon (here)
As you may recall, last year, machine gun fire mowed down a considerable quantity of the Indian public. Result was a brief skirmish with India targeting certain areas, believed to be infested with Lashkar e talib, a group that says because India once belonged to the Mughals, it belongs under a Muslim government.

Pakistan has been hopped up for at least thirty years by the CIA to form ideal conditions for militant tribal camps.

One consequence is a huge separatist movement, the Baloch Liberation Army, which has already inflicted huge damages.

In the past month, multiple suicide bombings happened in Pakistan. Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for one. Others are blamed on:

...seven camps and hideouts belonging to the Pakistan Taliban, also known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and its affiliates.

Islamabad says the TTP operates from inside Afghanistan, a charge the group denies.

In attempts to strike this group, Afghanistan says they attacked civilians.


Now, there are state versus state acts of war:

Kabul announced it had initiated large-scale offensive operations against Pakistani military positions along the disputed Durand Line border.

Taliban officials described the operation as a "retaliatory" measure against recent Pakistani airstrikes earlier in the week, which they claimed killed at least 18 people, including civilians, in eastern Afghan border regions.

Taliban's government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed that Pakistan had carried out airstrikes not only in Kabul but also in the southern province of Kandahar and the southeastern province of Paktia.

It's the worst powder keg.

It's the most vital area for BRICS-related commerce; has the highest potential for whatever the common good may turn out to be.

It would be nice if it turns out there is nothing to add to this post; unfortunately, there are so many issues that it may not be easy to contain.

A powder keg indeed Shaberon. The timing of this couldnt be worst

[shaberon]

Yes, even though it may seem smaller and quieter than their neighbor, this didn't automatically go away:

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have said they are open to negotiations to bring an end to the conflict. But Pakistan on Saturday said there would be “no dialogue”, repeating its long-running demand that Afghanistan stop harbouring “terrorism”, an allegation Kabul denies.

“There won’t be any talks. There’s no dialogue. There’s no negotiation. Terrorism from Afghanistan has to end,” the Pakistani prime minister’s spokesperson for foreign media, Mosharraf Zaidi, told Pakistan TV, stressing that Pakistan’s responsibility was to protect its citizens and territory.

International calls for mediation are growing as Pakistan and Afghanistan engage in cross-border fighting for a third day, in the most serious flare-up in violence between the neighbours in months that Pakistan says has brought them into “open war”.

[shaberon]

It crumbles a bit internally at this time as well. Looking around, we find numerous protests this weekend; here they were violent and deadly.


People are attacking U. S. facilities in multiple cities; not militias, just ordinary people, who are able to smash and burn. That is what they tried to do and some seem to have been killed by police. It however appears to have succeeded in the remote northern Gilgit-Baltistan:

At least eight people were killed in the city of Skardu after protesters set fire to offices of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan. Other buildings, including a school, were damaged.

The assassination is particularly meaningful to the Shi'a, who extend into North India:

In India, people in Jammu and Kashmir and Lucknow protested Ayatollah's killing, with prominent Shia cleric Maulana Yasub Abbas terming it "very unfortunate" for the global community. "Large-scale protests and demonstrations will be carried out at Lucknow's Imambara at 8.30 pm. All India Shia Personal Law Board has announced a mourning period of three days, when we all will wear black clothes and put up black flags at our houses," he told ANI.

In J&K, protests were witnessed in Srinagar, Budgam, Bandipora, Anantnag and Pulwama, with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah appealing for calm. "We must also ensure that those who are mourning in Jammu and Kashmir are allowed to grieve peacefully. The police and administration should exercise utmost restraint and refrain from using force or restrictive measures," he added.

This bends in reverse, because some of them do not think they should be part of India.

Different behaviors are found in areas where U. S. facilities are fortified compounds.


Karachi:









Baghdad:

[thirtythree]

Pakistan really takes the cake when it comes to mob mentality / violent protests.

In other news,

Pakistan army hits Afghan Taliban drone storage facility, ammunition depot in Jalalabad.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2635014/amp

[shaberon]

Posted by thirtythree (here)
Pakistan really takes the cake when it comes to mob mentality / violent protests.

Yes -- and by managing it with military dictatorship.

It's an intentional British design in the same school of map-making that brought us Africa and the Middle East.

It has no organic origin or ethos, whereas Afghanistan and India have at least something to stand on, even if harassed by modernization.

[shaberon]

Here is the scale of it according to Islamabad:

The toll of Afghan soldiers killed in clashes with Pakistani forces has risen to at least 527, with over 755 wounded, Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar announced via social media. Since the onset of the recent hostilities, Pakistani airstrikes have targeted 62 locations within Afghanistan. The Pakistani military has destroyed 237 Afghan checkpoints and has gained control over an additional 38. Moreover, Pakistani forces have destroyed more than 200 enemy armored vehicles.

On the evening of February 26, hostilities reignited along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Kabul confirmed it was launching a military operation in response to recent Pakistani airstrikes on Afghan territory. Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif declared that Pakistan and the Taliban-led Afghan government are now engaged in an open state of armed conflict.

[shaberon]

According to the same mouthpiece, this has continued to grind:

At least 684 Afghan soldiers have been killed and more than 910 have been wounded in armed clashes with Pakistani forces, Pakistani Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said.

According to the minister’s post on the X platform, since the beginning of the operation, airstrikes have been delivered on 73 targets in the neighboring country. The Pakistani army has eliminated 252 Afghan checkpoints and 44 more have been taken under control and destroyed. Apart from that, Pakistani forces have eliminated 229 enemy armored vehicles.

[Ravenlocke]

dana

🇮🇷🇦🇫🇵🇰 Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei on Afghanistan-Pakistan border clashes:

We consider our eastern neighbors very close to ourselves. I have long known about Pakistan as a country that was especially dear to our martyred leader, which was evident in the grief he showed during the prayer because of the devastating flood that threatened the lives of our brothers and sisters there.

For many reasons, I have always thought the same and did not refrain from expressing it in different meetings. Here, I want to request that our two brother countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan, for the sake of God and to avoid division among Muslims, must establish better relations with each other, and I am ready to take the necessary actions myself.

Resistance trench

https://x.com/dana916/status/2035094630178394265