The Taliban shells Pakistani border town
Taliban forces shelled a town on the Pakistan side of the border, killing seven people. This event was part of a series of hostile incidents. The shelling wounded 16 individuals. The Taliban pointed to clashes involving checkpoints being constructed on Afghanistan’s side of the border. The Taliban further claimed that the two sides exchanged gunfire.
From the Associated Press:
The Pakistani army’s media wing initially said six died in Sunday’s shelling, but the death toll later rose to seven. Sixteen others were wounded, the army said, blaming the casualties on the “unprovoked and indiscriminate fire” of heavy weapons by Afghan forces on civilians.
In Afghanistan, a spokesman for Kandahar’s governor, Ataullah Zaid, appeared to link the clashes between Pakistani and Taliban forces with the construction of new checkpoints on the Afghan side of the border.
He said one Taliban fighter was killed and 10 were wounded. Three civilians were also wounded, he added.
Pakistan’s army said troops responded to Afghan fire, but did not give further details. It said Pakistan has approached authorities in the Afghan capital, Kabul, to highlight the severity of the border incident.
Earlier, Akhtar Mohammad, a doctor with a government-run hospital in Chaman, told The Associated Press that live rounds wounded a total of 27 people who were brought to the hospital for treatment. He said seven were in critical condition.
A resident on Pakistan’s side of the border, Wali Mohammad took his wounded cousin to the hospital in Chaman. He said there were a number of explosions followed by rapid gunfire.
“We were in the street like any other day off, when suddenly, a big explosion was heard and debris hit many people, including one of my cousins,” said Mohammad.
Criticizing the Taliban, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif tweeted on Monday: “The Afghan Interim government should ensure that such incidents are not repeated.”
A deadly shooting in November shuttered the border at Chaman for eight days, causing heavy commercial losses and leaving thousands of people stranded on both sides.
The Associated Press has additional information.
Category: Taliban
Who was building those checkpoints? Really poorly written, AP!
All-Points Logistics should have the contract….
What could go wrong?!
No, the real question is “what could go right?” and the answer is “Nothing, ever, in that part of the world.”
“….including one of my cousins,” said Mohammad.”
Since when is anyone living there NOT a cousin?
(snicker)
Or shared a goat or three?
Are you saying they are the Middle East version of Arkansas rednecks?
“I did not have sexual relations with that Razorback!” WJC
” I have no comment about the rest of the farm animals”. WJC, cont.
They are still calling it the “interim” government lol.
Is this somehow supposed to be a concern for me?
Afghans and Pakistanis killing each other seems to be nothing that should be of interest to the US…
I’m more interested in when we might decide to drone strike some cartel homes in Mexico and actually conduct the drug war like a war…when they ship fentanyl across the border it’s an act of war in my opinion. Kill some American kids and run the risk of getting whacked in return….
Yeah, it’s a big “meh” from me.
Oh no! The Bloods and the Crips are beefing again? Whatever will I do? 🙄
Pop some popcorn and chow down!
Concur. And anyone caught illegally crossing the border with cartel ties should be presumed a spy, not an illegal immigrant.
And anyone caught illegally crossing the border should be presumed a spy, not an illegal immigrant.
FIFY
Well, the CIA is going to get in the way of that. They have directed sleepy Joe to keep the border open so the fentanyl can come in. It is a great money maker and covert operation funder. Ever wondered why the two greatest wars ever fought, the war on drugs and the war on poverty, have never ended?
Behold my fields,
For they are barren…
…and I have none to give.
Hey, Tally Bans! IIRC, the Pakis have nukes. FAFO, you may find yourself in a “Burning Ring of Fire”! (apologies to The Man In Black)
“Hey, Tally Bans! IIRC, the Pakis have nukes”
And in a few years, so will the Taliban.
F* ’em? They can go F* themselves!
I’d borrow you some, guys. But not enough to go around. 😉
Stolen.
Since the Red Flag went up on the Jamkaran Mosque in Qom Iran the struggle for Khorasan is on, and it’s not going to be cakes and pies.
One item to note regarding the Shia crescent/Sunni containment dynamic, this week China did a major foul upon the Iranians.
Strange bedfellows indeed.
NYPost:
Things are gonna get spicy/spicier.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/12/3-gunmen-killed-2-foreigners-injured-in-kabul-hotel-attack/
Is it possible that the Chi-coms will have a go at the tar baby? That’ll be fun. There’s a fuck ton of them, they oppress Muslims, and they give fuck-all about niceties such as the Law of Armed Conflict. I can sit on the sidelines and cheer for both sides to kill each other in droves. I hope we have the good sense to let them punch themselves out and not get involved.
Yeah, that would be the preferred outcome.
My guess would be IS-K will continue the provocations until a Pakistan/China/Taliban security agreement gets Daesh on the ropes.
Any vacuum in W. AFG will be filled by Iran, perhaps with Russia as advisors…
Maybe Joe is a genius. He started one fucking hell of a fire.
It’ll be funny watching the Taliban trying to do counterinsurgency; however, the Chinese will just go into a village and kill EVERYBODY. As long as that shit stays over there, I’m good with watching a bunch of people I don’t like kicking each other’s asses.
Testify, Pappy! Can we still say “tar baby”?
Well, shit.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/india-china-troops-clashed-near-lac-in-arunachal-army/ar-AA15bXLV
I hope someone finds a little peace in their hearts and learns to love their fellow man, and soon!
Sounds like WWIII won’t be kicking off in Eastern Europe, but in Central Asia. China and India throwing their respective billion people at each other in the mountains is going to get ugly. (Yes, I know they both have nukes, but China’s going to want to get to any resources they win and India actually cares what the world thinks of them.)
Oh, those kids are always messing around. We are just lucky that Russia isn’t Canada. Otherwise it would be the same with us.
Welp, it looks like the Paki ISI has lost control over their creature, the Taliban.
So much for “strategic depth” there… as if the Indians actually stayed up late scheming to seize territory they didn’t feel like in ’47, but who’s counting?
If the Pakis actually thought they could control religious fanatics like the Taliban in the long term, they were mistaken (see how nice I can be when I want to?).
And it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of folks.
Hard to have any sympathy for Pakistan after they provided refuge to Osama Bin Liden and then imprisoned the Doctor they suspected of helping the US Intelligence efforts. Of course, they probably would have never have known about the Doctor’s participation in the operation if Barrack Obama did not start running his pie hole to the press about how they located OBL.
We all know that Barry Saetoro from Kenya lied about that operation, since OBL had been dead from before 2006. That was a “look over here” operation to get the country off his back.
Bhutto says OBL was murdered in this interview here:
Osama Bin Laden Dead Since 2001 — In David Frost interview (2007) Bhutto Says Osama Bin Laden murdered. – video Dailymotion
They helped create and sustain that monster.
Karma.
It looks like ISIS has taken the fight to the supporters of the Taliban. In the last month there have been attacks against the Chinese and the Russians. Hope they have a jolly old time.
Found in the spam folder. Fixed no charge.
AW1
Well I’m good with this. If nothing else, maybe the Pakis will bring the heat on the Taliban in a way we wouldn’t have. Maybe it’s all a CIA plot to finish what we started, and the pullout was all part of the… no, that’s silly. Biden just screwed it up.
Maybe Brittney Griner can pull a Jane Fonda…..
And marry Ted Turner?🤣
But Ted might want to play hide the salami with her.
Ted’s? Or hers/his? Not sure what Brit’s pronouns are.
Griner is a lezzie and not a trannie. So, any salami she has comes with straps.
Maybe it’s just me but I can’t help thinking Vietcong everytime
see “Taliban” in the news. Funny how both Vietnam and
Pakistan make our underwear. Maybe the Taliban will throw in
the towel and join the crowd.
“throw in
the towel”
Racist!
Huh? I don’t think that phrase has racist connotations. I could be wrong, but I don’t see how you get there from here. Unless you’re mocking the “everything is racist” method of argumentation employed by our leftist friends. In which case I say, well played.