When the chickens come home to roost: Pakistan versus the Taliban
An official with Pakistan’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MoIB) took to X to announce Pakistan’s response to the Taliban. They claimed that the Taliban attacked them along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, and that Pakistan provided an immediate and effective response. Pakistan also accused the Taliban of allowing Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to shelter in Afghanistan. The latter is accused of conducting attacks inside Pakistan.
From Fox News:
Pakistan’s defense minister declared an “open war” with Afghanistan on Friday after the two sides exchanged heavy fire along their shared border on Thursday, according to multiple reports.
Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif said in a post on X that Pakistan had hoped the Taliban would bring stability after NATO’s withdrawal, but instead accused the group of turning Afghanistan “into a colony of India” and “exporting terrorism.”
“Our patience has now run out. Now it is open war between us,” he said.
The clashes came after the Taliban said it launched retaliatory strikes on Pakistani military positions, while Islamabad said it was responding to unprovoked fire in the area.
Reuters reported that both forces clashed for more than two hours along their roughly 2,600-kilometer (1,615-mile) border, threatening a ceasefire that had been agreed to in 2025 after fighting.
Thursday’s flare-up came after Pakistani forces carried out airstrikes inside Afghanistan earlier this week, with Taliban officials saying the strikes killed at least 18 people, Reuters reported Feb. 24.
Pakistan said it targeted militant hideouts and rejected claims that civilians were targeted.
The Taliban described an “extensive” military operation against Pakistani army positions in response to the strikes.
“In response to repeated provocations, extensive preemptive operations have been launched against Pakistani military positions along the Durand Line,” Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid wrote on X.
Additional Reading:
Bussey, E., & Sinkewicz, M. (2026, February 26). Pakistan declares ‘open war’ on Afghanistan in response to Taliban’s retaliatory strikes. Fox News. Link.
Category: Taliban, Terror War
The “Great Satan” unass’s the AO and there back to business as usual.
I’ll add this to the long list of things I care nothing about. Might even move it to the top.
Yeah, I checked, and my “give-a-damn” is definitely busted..
Couldn’t happen to a better group of countries. The only thing better is if it somehow hurts China.
They cannot possibly kill enough of each other.
But I sincerely wish them both – within extremely narrow parameters – overwhelming success.
So how exactly do you perform a Battle Damage Assessment in Afghanistan?
Pakistani General is examining aerial photographs of the area bombed and remarked “Excellent work, gentleman, you left them nothing but a pile of rubble.”
Adjutant responds “General, those are photos of the area before we launched the assault.”
Asscrackistan is the only place in the world that improves with a war going on there.
“The enemy of my friend is my enemy.”
“The friend of my enemy is my enemy.”
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
They have lived under that philosophy for millennia. They always have and always will hack each other’s heads off, but once an outsider entity comes in , then they unite against it. As for me, I say let them have at each other, it’s less of them we’ll have to deal with in the future!
If we were smart, we’d sell weapons to all sides involved. Turn a profit and enjoy the show.
The Afghan Taliban is very well outfitted thanks to Sleepy Joe.
Yes, but let’s not forget that Pakistan has nukes!
I can only imagine what their ‘ Nuclear Facilities ‘ look like. Goats and chickens running around. ‘ Engineers ‘ shitting in every corner.
Let them fight each other, to whatever end they want.
Unless it impinges on a US/Western civilization interest, I’d stay the fuck out’ta there.
No supplying weapons, no advisors, no soldiers, no aid, no refugees, no rebuilding, no “picking up the pieces”, no NUT’TIN! We stay outside a radius of at least 1000 miles, and just look on with disinterest.
If there are any civilian organizations that want to go in there, fine, have fun. Make sure your health and life insurances are fully paid up. BUT!! from the US, there will be no protection, no rescue, no supplies, again, no NUT’TIN!
As the preacher said in “Blazing Saddles”, “son, yer on yer own”.
Let China get involved with A-stan and find out themselves why that hellhole is called “The Graveyard of Empires”!
How does “Never get into a land war in Asia” apply to these two?
That said, if this has no effect on US interests I really have very little interest in it.
Sad that people do this to each other, but that is what happens.
Build a big freakin’ wall around the area and let them fight to the last man. Come to think of it, there are a LOT of areas that could use walls.
Can we root for both sides to lose?
May they destroy each other
Trump: “Hey, Little Marco. That Pakistan v Taliban thing looks like it’s getting hot. You think I can bring peace to another conflict? That’d be nine! Or is it ten. You know they say ‘sir, I don’t know how you keep bringing peace.’”
Rubio: “Sir, my advice is to let them battle it out. Maybe Pakistan will nuke them.”
Trump: “yeah. Yeah. Nuke ‘em. Nuke ‘em bigly.”
Cavemen vs. Cavemen. Where’s the popcorn?
Where’s the commissar been? I miss thinking about the Dunning-Krueger effect everytime I read his comments.
Jeebus Cristo don’t say that name! It’s like a horror movie. That liberal moondick might appear if you say it too many times!
He has already opened his digital cock-holster on the Weekend Open Thread.
Well shit….
“ digital cock-holster”
That’s some funny shit right there!
Yeah, Good luck with that Packystan.
So much for the Pakis’ “strategic depth” of retreating into Afghanistan.