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Interesting article on NYPost.
1. Hot pursuit allowed across Durand line?
2. Quetta Shura works out of 9 large houses.
article here, excerpts below:
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Under the agreement, the two neighbors will allow each other’s forces the right of hot pursuit.
This had been a thorny issue for decades, as successive Afghan governments refused to recognize the border fixed by the British during their rule in the Indian Subcontinent.
Afghans claim that large chunks of land, where Pushtun tribes form a majority, represent “Afghan occupied territory ” that should return to “the motherland,” a position firmly rejected by Pakistan.
Right now, some terror bases operating against Afghanistan are located just a couple of miles inside Pakistani territory under protection of Pakistani border guards.
With the new agreement, that protection will no longer be available. In fact, last week an Afghan unit pursued a terrorist group inside Pakistani territory for the first time.
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The top echelon of the Afghan Taliban’s leadership, after all, is located in nine large houses in the Pakistani city of Quetta. The group, calling itself “the Quetta Shura” or council, holds plenary sessions four times a year, often posting parts of the proceedings on YouTube.
It is also there that Mullah Muhammad Omar, the self-styled “Commander of the Faithful,” holds court, receiving local and foreign visitors. His secretariat reportedly employs more than two dozen individuals, including several Pakistani IT experts.
The Afghans return the favor by allowing the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Mullah Abdul-Razzaq, full facilities to run his headquarters in Jalalabad, close to the disputed border with Pakistan.
Both Islamabad and Kabul try to justify their strange behavior by claiming they are allowing the Taliban nothing but “normal political activity.”
1. Hot pursuit allowed across Durand line?
2. Quetta Shura works out of 9 large houses.
article here, excerpts below:
....
Under the agreement, the two neighbors will allow each other’s forces the right of hot pursuit.
This had been a thorny issue for decades, as successive Afghan governments refused to recognize the border fixed by the British during their rule in the Indian Subcontinent.
Afghans claim that large chunks of land, where Pushtun tribes form a majority, represent “Afghan occupied territory ” that should return to “the motherland,” a position firmly rejected by Pakistan.
Right now, some terror bases operating against Afghanistan are located just a couple of miles inside Pakistani territory under protection of Pakistani border guards.
With the new agreement, that protection will no longer be available. In fact, last week an Afghan unit pursued a terrorist group inside Pakistani territory for the first time.
.....
The top echelon of the Afghan Taliban’s leadership, after all, is located in nine large houses in the Pakistani city of Quetta. The group, calling itself “the Quetta Shura” or council, holds plenary sessions four times a year, often posting parts of the proceedings on YouTube.
It is also there that Mullah Muhammad Omar, the self-styled “Commander of the Faithful,” holds court, receiving local and foreign visitors. His secretariat reportedly employs more than two dozen individuals, including several Pakistani IT experts.
The Afghans return the favor by allowing the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Mullah Abdul-Razzaq, full facilities to run his headquarters in Jalalabad, close to the disputed border with Pakistan.
Both Islamabad and Kabul try to justify their strange behavior by claiming they are allowing the Taliban nothing but “normal political activity.”
