Posted on 02/27/2026 10:18:20 AM PST by RandFan
Residents of Kabul's District 6 were awakened abruptly on Thursday night by the sound of an explosion that shook their homes. They rushed out in the street and heard jets flying overhead.
It was a night that saw a serious escalation in violence between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with Pakistan launching airstrikes in Afghanistan - including its capital city, Kabul. Other places struck were in Paktia and Kandahar provinces, the latter a stronghold and the birthplace of the Taliban movement.
Hostilities between the two sides have been ongoing for months, yet the answer to who started the aggression depends on who you ask.
Earlier in the night, Afghanistan's Taliban government said it had launched a major ground operation against Pakistani military positions near the border, claiming to have captured several posts, and also claiming to have captured and killed Pakistani soldiers.
The Taliban government says they were "retaliatory operations" - a response after "Pakistani military elements carried out an incursion into Afghan territory, violated Afghan sovereignty, and caused the deaths of several civilians, including women and children".
They were referring to an earlier round of Pakistani airstrikes carried out less than a week ago - on the night of 21 February - targeting the eastern Nangarhar and Paktika provinces. The United Nations has said it has credible reports that 13 Afghan civilians were killed in those strikes.
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Who cares? Muslims killing each other is never a bad thing.
Well, to a degree they always are.
Probably over a goat.
Arm both sides and let them wipe each other out.
That's the reason? Why would the Taliban care? They must have been relatives of a warlord or some Taliban bigwig.
Pakistan created a Frankenstein’s monster in Afghanistan that is now coming back to haunt it.
I’m rooting for both sides. Have at it, boys!
Oh, right, I need the City of London & MI6’s MOUTHPIECE (the BBC) to explain it to me.
Muslims gonna Muslim.
Pakistan did not need more arms. Reported to possess 200 nukes already.
NAIL IT 👍
After 9-11 happened, I immediately thought: “well, now its clear - we can’t take on the burden of ancient hatreds, ethnic hostility, and muslim terrorism and import all of this into our own country - the clear and responsible solution for our government will be to stop all travel from these nations into the USA”
In fact, America’s politicians and elites gave us the exact opposite.
Gutfeld had a line. "I don't see how someone can be eating a goat kabob when an hour ago he was making love to it."
Created at Reagan’s behest - (See Charlie Wilson’s War - not completely inaccurate!) with US, Saudi and others money. Pakistanis certainly didn’t have the cash or the where with all to do it alone. Use indigenous insurgents against the Russians like they had used such against us for 70 years. Anyway that was the idea. It sort of worked, I guess. The “monster” was left on its own when Slick Willie World came online. Unfortunately thanks to Carter the “monster” infected with Islamism which no old Cold Warrior in the West understood and didn’t fit the think tank models.
When did they ever stop fighting ?
The problem here is that at least one of them has nukes. And with religious nuts running Muslim countries looking for, dreaming of, the return of their mahdi, well ... That is what makes it of concern.
We should have nuked something in the Middle East on 912. Instead globalist Bush brought more Muslims here. 😡😡
The Afghanistan Navy attacked Islamabad.
Well, Afghanistan has much of our weaponry, thanks to Joe Biden.
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