War Between Afghanistan And Pakistan?

 

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Thursday, December 26, 2024

War Between Afghanistan And Pakistan?

Here is a short video. You can watch just the first three minutes and then it repeats. It does not upload so please click on the link. 

https://www.youtube.com/live/qsEJCZWFPJU?si=78hm3jk3tLWHiq_I

Sometime last week the Pakistan Taliban (full name Tehreeke Taliban Pakistan or Tarikat Taliban Pakistan or TTP) attacked a Pakistan / Afghanistan border area and killed 16 Pakistani soldiers. The attack took place inside Pakistan. The TTP are the Pashtun people.

The reality is the Taliban in Afghanistan are playing a cat and mouse game. The Taliban in Afghanistan are also Pushtun so this is a racial thing going on. The Afghan Taliban are funding and equipping the TTP and encouraging them to attack Pakistan. They play cat. 

After conducting these attacks inside Pakistan the TTP fighters escape across the border and hide inside Afghanistan. When the Pakistanis accuse the Afghans of giving refuge to the TTP fighters, the Afghans say they have nothing to do with the TTP and that the TTP is an internal problem of Pakistan. They play mouse.

The Pakistanis know this cat and mouse game very well. So on Tuesday the Pakistanis struck back. The Pakistan Air Force bombed some Afghan villages along the border (inside Afghan territory). The Pakistanis say they killed 20 of the TTP terrorists hiding inside Afghanistan. Afghanistan said the Pakistani bombing killed 46 women and children, and that no TTP terrorists were involved. And Afghanistan said they will retaliate against Pakistan.

There are about 15 million Pashtuns in Afghanistan. They make up half the population of Afghanistan and they also control the Taliban government.  Over in Pakistan there are 43 million Pushtuns out of a population of 247 million Pakistanis. There are THREE times more Pushtuns in Pakistan than in Afghanistan. All the 43 million Pakistani Pushtuns live along the highly contested and not properly defined Afghan-Pakistan border.  The Pushtun people in Pakistan clearly do not like the Pakistani government which is dominated by Pakistan's 70 million Punjabis (the single largest ethnic group in Pakistan). 

Just like the Kurdish people in Syria, Iran, Turkey and Iraq who want their own Kurdish homeland so too the Pushtun people want their own "Pushtunistan". An amalgamation of Afghanistan and all the Pushtun inhabited border areas inside Pakistan. This is their long term goal and only the blind cannot see this. It is the right of every ethnic people to want to rule over themselves in their own homeland.

The Taliban (aka the Pushtun people) have only recently come to power in Afghanistan. They kicked out the Americans on 15th August 2021. When they left in a hurry the Americans "conveniently" abandoned billions of US Dollars worth of military equipment in Afghanistan which have all been grabbed by the Taliban. The Taliban are well armed and have huge quantities of ammunition, bombs, artillery shells, etc. 

After four years in power the Afghan Taliban are itching to do what they know best - fight wars in the mountains. And they do not recognise the Durand Line - that undetermined border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Plus there are another 43 million Pushtuns living on the 'wrong' side of the border who need to be liberated.

This is just another very troubled neighborhood.