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Posted on 02/27/2026 1:12:32 AM PST by Cronos
Pakistan carried out airstrikes on Afghanistan’s two largest cities on Friday, including the capital, Kabul, according to officials from both nations, escalating months of tension and border skirmishes into an open conflict.
Beyond Kabul, home to six million people, the strikes hit the southern city of Kandahar — where the Taliban’s supreme leader, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, lives — and the border province of Paktia, according to Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban government.
Pakistan launched the strikes hours after Afghan troops had attacked Pakistani border positions, according to Afghan and Pakistani officials. The Afghan attacks were described as retaliation for Pakistani strikes earlier in the week.
“Our cup of patience has overflowed,” Pakistan’s defense minister, Khawaja Asif, said on social media. “Now it is open war between us and you.”
At least one ammunition depot was bombed in Kabul, according to an Afghan military officer who reached the site shortly afterward and spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the clashes publicly. Pakistan’s state broadcaster said an ammunition depot in Kandahar had also been bombed.
Relations between the neighboring countries have deteriorated in recent months over Pakistan’s accusations that the Afghan government is harboring the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. The militant group has waged a relentless campaign against Pakistani security forces in recent years, and last fall claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed a dozen people at a courthouse in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital.
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I love it when I can root for both sides to lose.
Pakistan declares ‘open war’ on Afghanistan in response to Taliban’s retaliatory strikes
Muslims fighting Muslims...we can hope for massive casualties.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if Pakistan beats Afghanistan where all others failed?
Well Pakistan is likely to do things even the Russians may have felt wrong, so I could see it happening.
Arab on Arab violence is anything but humane and often is not limited to soldiers.
Not sure what you mean “all others failed”
The Soviets won their battles despite the USA propping up the Mujahieen. They only withdrew when the USSR collapsed
The British won against Afghanistan in the 1800s
The Mughals won against the Afghans in the 1600s
The Iranians won against the Afghans in the 1700s
The Arabs conquered the Afghans in the 8th century
The Kushans conquered the Afghans in the 3rd century
Alexander and his Macedonians conquered the Afghans in the 3rd century BC
Cyrus the Great and the Achaemenid Persians conquered the Afghans in the 6th century BC
Afghanistan is not this ‘unconquerable land’
Neither the Pakis nor the Afghanis are Arabs
Allow me to correct that, Muslim countries.
Yet, here they are.
Paktia is mentioned in the article, but Paktika is shown on the map. Paktia and Paktika are two separate provinces but often confused for one another. Did NY Slimes mess it up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwom49awRKg
Humorous 3 minute from The Onion News Network. The journalists have no idea what they’re discussing, and manage to confuse 2 countries completely.
Niger vs. Nigeria
If there are not any “infidels” available to kill, these bloodthirsty ghouls kill each other.
you got that right. Not only are both Mohammedans, but they are both Sunni Moslems!
It would not surprise me at all. Islamists in power treat their muslim enemies with full hate and support of the populace in ways we cannot do in the West.
All they have to do is effectively leverage the content in the Koran to paint their enemies as apostates (Shia vs. Sunni, etc) and they can do anything they please to them including nuking them.
We don’t succeed because we still possess true morality to at least some degree.
Pakistan or Afghanistan could succeed because they possess no moral value or twisted ones.
“All the others” don’t seem to be occupying Afghanistan at this time.
NOT OUR PROBLEM!
We have shed far too much of our nations lifeblood over these islamic fools.
They can all pound sand.
It will be fun to see if these guys can do any better there.
Well, maybe not fun.
No…it will be fun.
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