The current assaults via way of means of Pakistani forces on regions alongside the Pak-Afghan border suggest Islamabad’s deep hatred for the tribal groups such as Pashtuns, in step with media reports.
More than forty human beings died while rockets had been fired from Pakistan Air Force (PAF) helicopters in Kunar, Khost, Paktika and different bordering provinces closing week on April 16, even as the neighboring u . s . stated most effective six deaths, and that too, after neighborhood witnesses in Kunar province made claims of PAF helicopters firing rockets, Islam Khabar mentioned on Tuesday.
The tribals, particularly Pashtuns dwelling in hilly regions on each aspects of the border were the regular goal of the Pakistan army.
However, what Islamabad refuses to well known is the soreness of the tribal human beings stuck in hostilities among the 2 nations due to the dispute over the Durand line.
Notably, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan does now no longer realise the British-technology Durand Line because the boundary among Afghanistan and Pakistan. Violations alongside the Durand Line keep to stay a bone of rivalry among the 2 nations.
The Durand Line divides the conventional Pashtun regions in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
According to Islam Khabar, the Pak Army’s plans for early final touch of fencing paintings obtained a setback in December 2021 with the Taliban now no longer most effective preventing its creation in Nangarhar province however additionally dismantling it.
The phantasm of the incident being a ‘neighborhood event’ changed into dispelled in January 2022 while Taliban Spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid claimed that the fencing via way of means of Pakistan changed into tantamount to “dividing a nation” and changed into “illegal” withinside the eyes of the Taliban.
The identity of Durand Line as a ‘country wide difficulty’ via way of means of the Taliban means that Islamabad’s tries to fence it might be resisted in destiny as well.
In February 2022, 9 incidents of pass border firing/artillery shelling had been mentioned in Kunar, Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kandahar and Khost provinces. Clashes broke out in February in Kandahar’s Spin Boldak district, in which, six Afghans had been killed and round 20 injured.
Similarly in March 2022, 4 incidents of firing/artillery shelling had been mentioned in Kunar, Helmand and Nuristan provinces.
The Pak Army officers additionally issued a caution to the Afghan citizens in Jaji Maidan District in Khost and Palosi region of Lalpur district in Nangarhar to depart the region to facilitate border fencing or face critical consequences. The common assaults made Taliban Foreign Ministry difficulty a demarche to Islamabad, highlighting incidents of pass-border shelling.
By helping the Taliban and assisting it capture manage of Afghanistan, Pakistan had was hoping to set up strategic intensity withinside the u . s . even as persuading the Taliban Government into legitimizing the Durand Line.
However, while matters did now no longer pan out as consistent with its expectations, Pakistan resorted to using intense measures inclusive of implementing a blockade on the Chaman publish in early October 2021 similarly to current disruptions on the Torkham Post.
These had been fundamental crossings for guys and items and additionally a first-rate supply of sales for the Taliban government. Pakistan’s army and monetary moves have most effective made clean its obsession to set up manage over Taliban and lead them to subservient to Islamabad.
