Pakistan bombed Kabul on Friday 10th Oct 2025. Yesterday Saturday the Afghan Army retaliated with heavy artillery firing into Pakistan at SEVEN locations along their 2,640 km border. Here is a map showing the hotspots (no pun intended but it does sound punny).
First the news (thanks to my Afghanistan correspondent Kamaruddin who sends me stuff from Kota Bharu).
- KARACHI, Pakistan / ISTANBUL
- Kabul launched attacks in "response to repeated violations of Afghan airspace and airstrikes carried out on Afghan territory by Pak military"
- ministry said Afghan forces "retaliatory ops targeting Pak along Durand Line"
- Afghan-Pak border hostilities escalated on Sat
- exchanges of heavy fire along border since Sat evening
- armies in cross-border shelling, heavy artillery
- day after Pak violated airspace over Kabul
- Pak bombed market in Margha region of Paktia province
- Firing along Khost, Nangarhar, Paktika, Paktia, Kunar, Khost continuing
- 2,640-kilometer (1,640-mile) border
- ops concluded at midnight (local time)
- social media show heavy artillery fire
- Kabul says 'retaliatory ops' against 'violation' by Pak army
- Pakistan blames Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror acts
- Pak accused Kabul of failing to prevent TTP terrorist attacks in Pak
My Comments:
So dear reader, maybe now we can understand why Joseph Biden left behind that US7 billion worth of weapons (artillery, tanks, helicopters, ammunition to last a few wars) in Afghanistan when the Americans pulled out in 2021?
"The US hastily and chaotically withdrew in August 2021. A U.S. Department of Defense report in 2022 found that about $7 billion worth of military hardware was left behind in Afghanistan after the military withdrawal was completed".
It took four years for the Taliban to repair the tanks, learn to fire the artillery and to fly the American helicopters. Now they are ready to use these weapons. And Pakistan is bankrupt - they have no money. Pakistan is in no position to fight any war at all.
Taliban Social Media is already showing pictures and videos (below) of dead Pakistani soldiers.
The Pakistanis must retaliate. Rather, the Pakistanis better retaliate and hit back the Afghans forcefully. Because if they do not strike back then the Pushtun Tehreeke Taliban Pakistan, the entire 40 million Pakistani Pushtun population, the Balochistan Liberation Army, the Sindhi secessionists in Karachi will all see that the Pakistan Army is weakening. They may decide to take advantage of the weakening situation and launch their own strikes at the Pakistani Army.
Of Pakistan's 250 million population, about 40 million are Pushtun who never liked Pakistan.Out of Afghanistan's 40 million population, about half or 20 million are the Pushtun (Taliban) who control the country.
You can see that the Pushtun heartland is actually inside Pakistan.
Not inside Afghanistan.
The 20 million Pushtuns in Afghanistan would really like to 'join forces' with the 40 million Pushtuns in Pakistan, to create their Pushtunistan state.
Somebody's goose is going to get cooked.
