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Shaken by Taliban attacks on Afghan border, Pakistan Army’s Asim Munir seeks ‘intel’ from generals
In a major setback following coordinated attacks by Afghan Taliban fighters on military posts along the Durand Line, Pakistan’s army chief, General Asim Munir, held an emergency meeting at GHQ Rawalpindi and demanded an intelligence report.
A full-blown conflict between Afghanistan’s Taliban and neighboring Pakistan seemed unthinkable when the hard-line Islamist group, a longtime ally of Islamabad, seized power in 2021 as international troops withdrew and the government their supported collapsed.
What began as airstrikes by Pakistan on Afghan territory has spiralled into a full-blown military clash, exposing the collapse of Islamabad’s once-vaunted control over the Taliban.
Khawaja Asif stressed that dialogue under threats is unacceptable. “If Afghanistan wants negotiations while threatening Pakistan at the same time, then they should act on their threats and we'll negotiate after,
Pakistan uprooted the Taliban with U.S. help in the 2010s. But the insurgency has resurfaced with assistance from the Afghan Taliban.
The Taliban government accuses Pakistan of bombing Kabul and a market in eastern Afghanistan. A blast occurred Thursday night in Kabul near key government buildings.
Gunmen in northwest Pakistan killed a police officer guarding polio vaccinators on Tuesday (Oct 14), police said, on the second day of a nationwide campaign to counter rising cases.
The move follows a weekend of cross-border fighting triggered by Pakistani airstrikes targeting a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant inside Afghanistan.
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