Oh yeah, why doesn't the Pakistani government set about talking up several more peace agreements with the Taliban?! I mean, we realize that they kidnap or kill Pakistani officials, police, military troops and innocent civilians every other week but hey, sit down and talk some more peace with them! Here's the details of what went on in the Khyber Pass region of Pakistan on the Afghanistan border from Reuters:
The Pakistani government just can't seem to understand why there is so much more violence in the whole NW tribal areas nowadays - lemme see...do you think perhaps it has something to do with NATO and U.S. success in Afghanistan and that there are about 20 times as many Taliban in your NW area than ever before? Ya think?
If you put a goat in your backyard, it's going to eat your grass. If you put Taliban in your backyard, they're going to kill your people. Simple as that.
Suspected pro-Taliban Militants kidnapped 17 Pakistani policemen from posts on the road through the Khyber Pass, the latest insecurity on the vital supply route for Western forces in Afghanistan.
Militants attacked four checkposts on the winding road through the pass that leads to the Afghan border on Sunday night, kidnapping the policemen and wounding one in a brief exchange of fire, a senior government official in the region said.
The Pakistani government just can't seem to understand why there is so much more violence in the whole NW tribal areas nowadays - lemme see...do you think perhaps it has something to do with NATO and U.S. success in Afghanistan and that there are about 20 times as many Taliban in your NW area than ever before? Ya think?
If you put a goat in your backyard, it's going to eat your grass. If you put Taliban in your backyard, they're going to kill your people. Simple as that.
Militants abduct 17 police in Pakistan's Khyber Pass
"Our 17 khasadar are missing," said the official in Landikotal, the main town in the Khyber region, referring to members of special police forces raised in ethnic Pashtun tribal agencies.
"The attackers appear to be outsiders, maybe militants from Mohmand," said the official, who declared to be identified, referring to a neighboring region where Taliban fighters operate.
No militant group claimed responsibility and no ransom demand had been received, said the official.
Khyber had been virtually free of militant violence until this year but security has deteriorated sharply in recent months.
Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan was kidnapped in February while traveling through the Khyber Pass. Taliban militants freed him in May. Several aid workers were also kidnapped in the region.
Rival militant factions have also been battling to control the area but according to officials, those militants have no links with the allies of al Qaeda and the Taliban fighting elsewhere along both sides of the Afghan border.
Up to 15 people were killed and dozens wounded in fighting in the region over the weekend.
Many supplies for the U.S. military and other foreign forces in landlocked Afghanistan go through two crossing points on the Afghan-Pakistani border, one at the top of the Khyber Pass and the other to the southwest, at the Afghan town of Spin Boldak.
The government has vowed to restore order in Khyber.
1 comment:
Shark,
In the presidential campaign, if anyone in the MSM has the balls to ask some tough questions of Hussein Obama about Pakistan and Afghanistan, the whole world will see the lunacy and the swiss cheese that is his proposed policy over there.
:Holger Danske
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