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The source is Pakistani. I will link it up later in the evening. We rarely get good weather in UK. But yesterday and today has been a scorcher so need to get out and enjoy it. See you guys in the evening. The source is Suhail Shaheen a graduate of Islamic University in Islamabad and he speaks...

It's always been good Taliban vs bad Taliban. Ask the Americans who created the antecendents of Taliban way back in 1979. The good/bad depending on your particular prejudices. The source is in Urdu translation.

There will be flights by USAF over Pak airspace until September 2021 per the agreement. However there is no basis to say these are combat flights and any such claims are just Indian propaganda. At this critical juncture Pakistan would be suicidal to allow combat flights knowing it would lead to...

I saw a interview of Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban spokesman and he made some interesting points - Taliban would never have been able to fight USA/NATO for 20 years without the active support of vast number of the civilian population of Afghanistan. Meaning they hid them, they fed them and...

Sorry, my mistake.

Let me clarify this. Republic of Ireland also does not accept the Ulster border with UK but that does not mean we can't live in peace. In fact I personally hope at some point in future the Af-Pak border becomes a soft border where citizens of both countries can move across much like Common...

Nilgiri, this contradiction is seen in all powers particularly great powers. Consider US support for Islamist Sunni groups in Syria against the secular Bashar Al Asad. You can call him amny thing but is is stauncly secular and a antichrist to the Islamists yet America is hell bent on throwing...

This is what that matters. Take a hike I say for rest of them. Most countries of the world have turned to join regional blocks. Turkey is part of NATO and OSCE with tentative links to EU. The Arabs have GCC and Arab League. Pakistan remains entirely detached from it's own region. The Turkish...

Some good news out of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. USA, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan have agreed to partnership to build regional trade linkages and infra to help create stability in the region. This has serious potential for change.

Zbigniew Brzezinski and United States covertly armed and spent billions building up these 'savages' to fight the evil Soviet Russia. Female rights, human rights, press freedom, liberal democracy was not in their lexicon. Strategic interest and realpolitics was. As Zbigniew Brzezinski bluntly...

Zbigniew Brzezinski was President Carters NSA in late 1970s and was the man behind the Afghan Jihad of 1980s. Mujihadeen were literally his pet project and the chap knows Afghanistan very well. Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs that the American...

Did I say that? It is you who is trying to make the actions of one group amongst many glare. Your analogy does not fit. It is more like everybody on your street is shooting and you start cussing the guy across the road because you don't like him. Let me make this clear to you. All groups in...

There was always under current of ethnic killing as always this happens but this is applicable to all groups and not exclusive preserve of Taliban.

I think I already explained to you that Mujihadeen was just a umbrella term for variety of factions fighting the Russians. The largest component of the Muj were Pashtuns because they are the largest % of Afghanistan. After Soviets left the Muj devolved into it's generic factions with one...

I think Turkey has a critical role to play but only within a Pak-Uzbek plan. They must both take the lead as they are both the most to be effected by events there. If things go really bad Pakistan could get flooded by millions of refugees amongst who could be terrorists and we will again see...

It's a great question but the intent is not. It's to gloat and chatter 'TATA'. But since you ask my answer is yes it is possible in near future. For that to happen smuggling of cars from Iran/Afghanistan has to stop and the Japanese monoplies like Toyota etc have to reined in as their influence...

Edit: Our Prime Minister Imran Khan is a ethnic Pashtun but born in Lahore, Punjab.

Just to clarify before 9/11 Afghanistan was not India friendly. It was the US invasion with Pakistan providing the logistical and launching pad that changed everything. This would be akin to say Turkey helping America to invade Iraq who then hand over Baghdad to pro Russian Kurdish group who...

10/10. The funny thing is lot of the crazies who volunteered to fight the Serbs [who else would go off into Bosnia when the Serbs were going wild but be crazy] were actually Pashtuns with combat experiance fighting the Russkes during 1979-89

Both of you guys need to get a grip. There is no indication of any ethnic cleansing. Taliban are primaril;y driven by Islam and ethnicity is secondary to them. That is why they took in riff raff from across the Muslim world in the past. Many members of East Turkistan movement armed to the teeth...