Terror Attacks from Afghanistan on Pakistan Continue

[Dance]

As if the afghan government is going to do anything about it. They're probably encouraging the attacks

 

[Paan Singh]

As if the afghan government is going to do anything about it. They're probably encouraging the attacks

this is wat i said...other front..

 

[Dance]

this is wat i said...other front..

Sorry I didn't see your post.

Anyways this is nothing new, Pakistan should seriously building some sort of fence to keep these people out. Its long overdue!

 

[hembo]

Afghan Defence Ministry is ready to retaliate against Pakistan's missile attacks in the best possible way, a senior Afghan military official said on Wednesday.

At a press conference Defence Ministry Spokesman Gen. Zaher Azimi said around 150 missiles fired from Pakistan have landed in different regions in eastern Kunar province in the past week.

Gen. Azimi said the Pakistani missile attacks are not justifiable.

He said Afghan Defence Ministry is waiting for a decision from politicians and the House of Representatives.

"The National Army is prepared to retaliate with a suitable response if we are permitted by Afghan politicians," Gen. Azimi said. "Not only the National Army, Kunar residents would be able to give an appropriate response to such an act."

"We are making efforts to resolve the issue through diplomatic approaches."

Twenty civilians have lost their lives and some have been wounded in the attacks, according to the Defence Ministry.

Pakistan keeping up its missile attacks against Afghanistan would deteriorate relations between the two nations, Gen. Azimi said.

The Defence Ministry says it was shocked to hear about the attacks.

"I see no reason for such an attack from Pakistan. There hasn't been any attack by our troops. Without any apparent reason, they have started to fire heavy arms and most of those killed in the attacks have been civilians," Gen. Azimi said.

This is not the first time that Pakistan is targeting provinces located close to long and porous borders.

Yesterday the Afghan House of Representatives strongly criticised government's silence towards the Pakistani attacks.

Source: Afghans Ready to Retaliate Against Pakistan Missile Attacks

 

[Zaberdast]

what can Afghan army do? Their army is full of drug addicts and bacha baaz type. Its all hype,...Afghans are famous for talking crap.....remember that Karzai speech a while back claiming i will take war in to Pakistan...lol

 

[Leader]

what can Afghan army do? Their army is full of drug addicts and bacha baaz type. Its all hype,...Afghans are famous for talking crap.....remember that Karzai speech a while back claiming i will take war in to Pakistan...lol

its not about what their army can do, its about having enemies on both sides, which requires attention !

 

[Leader]

and we have already offended Jinnah's "volunteer defenders of our western border", so it is Alarming..

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Threads merged.

Afghanistan's complaints about 'Pakistani Rocket Fire into Afghanistan' need to be looked at in the context of multiple large scale terrorists attacks against Pakistani villages and troops, by insurgents based in Eastern Afghanistan.

Pakistan has suffered significant losses in these terrorist attacks from Afghanistan, and cannot be expected to simply sit by and not respond.

Trust the US Establishment manipulated Western media to ignore the attacks against Pakistan, and seek to cast the military response by Pakistan as some sort of 'support for Taliban by Pakistan'.

 

[humanfirst]

attacks against Pakistani villages and troops, by insurgents based in Eastern Afghanistan.

Its offtopic but who is having more control over eastern afghanistan?Afghan Taliban or ANA/Nato?It seems a lot of ttp terrorists are now in eastern provinces like kunar..Who actually is sheltering them?NATO or afghan taliban?

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Who actually is sheltering them?NATO or afghan taliban?

Looking at the number of attacks against Pakistani villages and troops, by militants based in Afghanistan, the only thing I can say conclusively is that the US/ISAF/ANA are doing very little to stop these insurgents from sheltering, training, organizing, operating and carrying out attacks against Pakistan.

As the Ejaz Haider article pointed out - contrast the number of attacks and ISAF casualties in the provinces supposedly affected by North Waziristan based insurgents with the casualties suffered by Pakistani troops in large scale terrorist attacks out of Eastern Afghanistan in just the last several weeks.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

http://www.defence.pk/forums/pakistans-war/116148-east-afghanistan-al-qaeda-taliban-central.html

http://www.defence.pk/forums/pakistans-war/115723-no-operation-north-waziristan-agency.html

The above two threads are a good read in the context of this discussion as well.

 

[Spring Onion]

Its offtopic but who is having more control over eastern afghanistan?Afghan Taliban or ANA/Nato?It seems a lot of ttp terrorists are now in eastern provinces like kunar..Who actually is sheltering them?NATO or afghan taliban?

they basically sheltered by ANA with help of Northern Alliance warlords in the govt there

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

U.S. Afghan Pullback Lets Taliban Open New Bases, Pakistan Military Says​

By Haris Anwar and James Rupert - Jun 30, 2011 11:29 PM ET

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A U.S. pullback of troops from northeastern Afghanistan over 20 months has let Islamic guerrillas establish bases in the area and carry out unusually large attacks on Pakistan in recent weeks, the Pakistani military said.

Several Pakistani Taliban groups moved fighters into Nuristan and Kunar and used those Afghan provinces five times in the past month to send forces numbering in the hundreds to attack Pakistani border posts or police stations, said military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas.

“In the past we never had this kind of experience, where 200 to 300 militants attacked us,” Abbas said yesterday in an interview at Pakistan’s army headquarters in Rawalpindi. “It’s a big body in this mountainous terrain” and shows that the militants have established bases in northeastern Afghanistan that can house, feed and transport such groups, he said.

Pakistan’s complaint about the Taliban filling a power vacuum in Afghanistan comes as President Barack Obama pledged June 22 to withdraw 33,000 U.S. soldiers between this month and the end of next year, replacing them with Afghan troops and police the U.S. is helping to train. The U.S. government contends that Pakistan has failed to eliminate similar safe areas for the guerrillas in its border districts, especially North Waziristan.

The complaints on both sides underscore the need and the difficulty for Pakistan and Afghanistan to maintain control all the way to the isolated, mountainous border between them, Abbas said.

Escape Route

Pakistani officials say the U.S. pullback from northeastern Afghanistan since late 2009 has given the Taliban an escape route from the Pakistan army’s offensives to clear the militants from two adjacent Pakistani districts, Bajaur and Mohmand.

“The best economy of effort is by conducting joint operations” to trap the guerrillas between U.S. and Pakistani forces, Abbas said.

“We know the border is very porous and the insurgents are using the terrain to their advantage,” said U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Kaye Sweetser, a spokeswoman for the U.S.- led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. “We’re constantly trying to deal with that.”

While ISAF “is aware of media reports from Pakistan” saying the Taliban have carried out attacks from Afghanistan, Sweetser said she didn’t immediately have independent information on the incidents.

Laying Blame

Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry spokesman, General Zaher Azimi, denied that any Pakistani Taliban maintain bases anywhere in Afghanistan. Pakistan is “trying to blame Afghanistan,” Azimi said in a phone interview.

Hundreds of Taliban fighters crossed the border from Kunar on mountain ridges as high as 3,700 meters (12,000 feet) to attack police stations in Pakistan’s Dir Valley on April 22 and on June 1, Abbas said. About 300 fighters crossed into Pakistan’s Bajaur tribal district last month and seized two border posts, killing 15 Pakistani security officers, he said.

As the Pakistani army has undertaken offensives since 2007 to re-capture districts taken over by the Taliban, the surviving Taliban forces have moved to Kunar and Nuristan to regroup, Abbas said. These include Taliban commanders Hakimullah Mehsud from South Waziristan, Faqir Muhammad from Bajaur and Abdul Wali from Mohmand, he said.

The U.S. military made its most prominent advance into Nuristan after 2006, establishing several small outposts to interdict guerrillas crossing into the province from Pakistan. After repeated Taliban attacks on the camps left dozens of U.S. soldiers dead, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, ordered a shift of troops from rural outposts to population centers, and the Nuristan bases were abandoned in 2009.

“ISAF posts were vacated and that created a void,” Abbas said. “Unless we resolve this, it will not allow the whole effort of bringing stability in the region.”

To contact the reporters on this story: Haris Anwar in Islamabad at hanwar2@bloomberg.net; James Rupert in Islamabad at jrupert3@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Peter Hirschberg in Hong Kong at phirschberg@bloomberg.net

U.S. Afghan Pullback Lets Taliban Open New Bases, Pakistan Military Says - Bloomberg

 

[SMC]

Most pathetic statement. . TTP is Islamic religious group like Afgan Taliban that you created long back to destroy Afghanistan and now it came back against Pakistan. and U.S. is attacking TTP. Kill all TTP..........but you are not doing as many sympathizer in Pakistan Society. What you sow, you reap....

We created TTP? What I find interesting is that with statements like that, how can you have the audacity to call others deluded. You delude yourself that you're not deluded.

 

[unicorn]