Fighting Erupts Between Pakistan and the Taliban

A simmering border battle between Pakistan and Afghanistan flared into full-blown warfare after a shock Pakistani air raid on the Afghan cities of Kabul, Khost, Jalalabad, and Paktika focusing on management and amenities of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The Pakistani model of the Taliban, which numbers about 4,000 fighters, broadly cooperated with the Afghan Taliban during our 20-year battle, but their real goal is changing the Pakistani authorities.

If Pakistan thought that the Afghans had been going to sit by meekly while the Pakistanis bombed them, they underestimated the scenario. Afghanistan, bolstered by billions of {dollars} donated by Joe Biden’s arm-a-terrorist program, has launched assaults at a number of Pakistani border installations.

BREAKING:

The Afghan Taliban announce that they’ve launched assaults against Pakistan at 7 factors along the border.

Source: Afghan Defense Ministry pic.twitter.com/ASmBmWgI81

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 11, 2025

Here, Afghan reinforcements in U.S.-manufactured up-armored HMMWVs transfer reinforcements to the entrance traces.

BREAKING:

The Afghan Taliban ship large Humvee convoys toward the border with Pakistan as reinforcements after intense preventing breaks out between the 2 international locations

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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 11, 2025

They are supported by artillery manned by U.S.-trained gun crews.

In 2012 I helped area and practice the 201st Corps on their new D-30s.

So an American educated Afghans on a Russian howitzer that ended up with the Taliban who are now firing them into Pakistan. https://t.co/FNuTZFpal3

— Preston Stewart (@prestonstew_) October 11, 2025

They also have a tiny bit of air help supplied by the U.S.

Video reportedly of Afghan Super-Tucano plane bombing the Pakistani metropolis of Lahore tonight.
Afghanistan A-29 Super Tucano plane had been supplied by the US before Taliban takeover. The plane will be armed with two 500-pound bombs, twin .50-caliber machine weapons & rockets. pic.twitter.com/zuo67C3I1n

— Mehdi H. (@mhmiranusa) October 11, 2025

Things do not look to be going significantly effectively for the Pakistanis as the first photos of prisoners emerge.

First footage of captured Pakistani military Prisoner of War by Afghan forces. pic.twitter.com/LvBB9e87n0

— Λｖｅｎｇｅr 🇮🇳 𝕏 (@TheAvenger82) October 12, 2025

This battle is another of those brought about by a British civil servant drawing arbitrary traces on a map. In this case, Sir Mortimer Durand drew the eponymous Durand Line in 1893, separating India and Pakistan. As a consequence, a lot of what would in any other case be Afghans discovered themselves in the British Indian Empire. The line held as the northern border of Pakistan when the completely non-violent, peaceable partition of India between Hindus and Muslims occurred after Indian Independence. The space has been restive and harmful to outsiders ever since Pakistan was created. 

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979–1989) made issues a lot more fascinating as the U.S. and Saudi Arabia funneled arms and training to the mujahideen via Pakistan’s ISI intelligence service. The main recipients of that support had been the Pashtun tribes. These grew to become the Afghan Taliban in 1994. They had been armed and sheltered by Pakistan as a manner of conserving Afghanistan in Pakistan’s orbit and countering Indian affect

Like so many great concepts, this turned out to have flaws.

The TTP, fashioned in 2007, immediately turned against Islamabad, demanding Sharia governance and autonomy for the Pashtun tribal areas. They used acquainted ways: suicide bombings, faculty massacres, and ambushes. During our twenty years in Afghanistan, the TTP supplied sanctuaries for their Afghan brethren where they might rearm and regroup under the safety of Pakistan. Now, Pakistan is about to be devoured by the monster it created and nurtured.

After the Abbey Gate tragedy, Pakistan’s victory turned to ashes. Where Pakistan thought it had evicted the U.S. from the space and completely stopped Indian inroads, it was confronted by a TTP, utilizing Afghanistan as a sanctuary, unleashing never-ending violence on the Pakistani border. Since 2021, there have been over 2,500 TTP assaults, largely utilizing deserted U.S. weapons.

As the total goal seems to be to pry the Pashtun border areas away from Pakistan, Pakistan has ordered the deportation of over 4 million Aghans dwelling in the Durand Line area. Over 800,000 have left.

The tempo of assaults and reprisals has escalated over the last 12 months. Pakistan retaliated with border strikes, most considerably in March and December 2024, but that isn’t to say that the TTP hasn’t had some notable successes.

The latest spherical kicked off with the air raids, which seem to be a Temu knockoff model of Israel’s evisceration of the high instructions of Hezbollah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Like most issues Pakistani, the execution wasn’t exemplary.

It is early yet, but one can see how this may end up to be a self-own on the scale of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

As you possibly can see, the stakes for Pakistan are immense. The orange and brown areas signify areas that may very well be misplaced to Afghanistan or independence if the TTP is profitable.

Pakistan’s going to have a enjoyable time attempting to preserve control of their border territories pic.twitter.com/sK7h8QdMRP

— Intelschizo (@Schizointel) October 11, 2025

Pakistan is unlikely to obtain a lot help from the Muslim world, as Afghanistan is also Muslim and arguably more so than Pakistan. Saudi Arabia joined a mutual protection pact with Pakistan in September, but Saudi Arabia’s navy is just not succesful of projecting measurable energy, and the Saudi expertise in Yemen would not go away one with the feeling that Saudi involvement would do more than create targets and hostages for the TTP.

China in all probability cannot let this disaster go to waste and will discover a manner to meddle in it.

The wild card right here is Trump’s need to reoccupy Bagram air base in Afghanistan (see Trump Drops Bombshell: U.S. Trying to Reclaim Key Asset From Taliban – RedState). The issue appears to be useless, but if it’s still kicking, then peace between Afghanistan and Pakistan is important, as Bagram is just not sustainable without Pakistani logistics help.

As the Afghans are more warlike and succesful than the Pakistanis and are at parity in armaments, issues do not look good if Pakistan tries to impose a navy answer on the downside.

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