Taliban - Pakistan Style

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Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan

Remember, Pakistan has nukes. Won't be long until we go back in to prevent them from having WMD.

https://abcnews.go.com/International...kills-79842448

QUETTA, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber detonated his explosives Sunday near a security checkpoint in restive southwestern Pakistan, killing at least three paramilitary troops and wounding 15 others, police said.

Senior police officer Azhar Akram said the attacker had walked toward the checkpoint manned by the paramilitary Frontier Corps on Quetta-Mastung Road, some 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. He said body parts were found at a distance from the security post after the bombing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrik-i-Taliban_Pakistan

Among the stated objectives of TTP is resistance against the Pakistani state.[2][38] The TTP's aim is to overthrow the government of Pakistan by waging a terrorist campaign against the Pakistan armed forces and the state.[39] The TTP depends on the tribal belt along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, from which it draws its recruits. The TTP receives ideological guidance from and maintains ties with al-Qaeda.[39]

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http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...to-Afghanistan!

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There won't be any going back of troops to Afghanistan, that chapter likely closed for decades barring any major swan event.

.. The TTP receives ideological guidance from and maintains ties with al-Qaeda.[39]

This group was in the news few weeks ago and was reportedly behind July 14th killing of 9 Chinese Belt n Road engineers in a bus terror attack per China's state paper Global Times. It was a major event that shocked China and may have led to quick fall of Kabul, a very high level meeting had taken place between Taliban and China soon afterwards.

China denounces use of terrorism for geopolitical gains and calls for a united front to uphold regional security interests

Sarah Zheng
13 Aug, 2021
Pakistan’s deputy inspector general of counterterrorism police, said video footage, mobile phone data analysis, investigation of local handlers and facilitators, and forensic examination of the car used in the bombing all revealed that the TTP in Afghanistan had planned this attack. “Senior officers of the RAW and NDS were directing them in Afghanistan,” Iqbal added.

Taliban were ‘catching and killing us’: Afghan intel officer who fled to Delhi on last flight from Kabul
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) officer said that the Taliban had sent them notices...
AUG 17, 2021

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan

Remember, Pakistan has nukes. Won't be long until we go back in to prevent them from having WMD.

Military intervention can be useful sometimes but isn't the fix for every problem; it often creates 10 more problems while it may or may not address the original problem as we have just seen with the failed 20 years war in Afghanistan. After $2 Trillions wasted and many lives lost in Afghanistan with no good results, how many countries should we police by sending troops? Afghanistan once more, Pakistan, North Korea, India, Syria, Iraq ( although not sure where their WMDs are now)...

Pakistani Indian rivalry was another dynamic that was playing out in Afghanistan, Afghan people have been paying a huge price for last 4 decades as their country was turned into a playground of two super powers USA-USSR and then for numerous other proxy conflicts. Nuclear armed Pakistan and India's tensions had no doubt made the situation volatile. Pakistan's military seems to dominate in many spheres, it is accused of oppressing political voices, inteferring in neighboring countries of Afghanistan, Indian Kashmir and numerous military dictatorships have overthrown democratic governments. But nuke risks at this stage are probably uniform across SE Asia. Their rival India has a long track record of being a democratic pluralistic society but in recent years it is moving towards a more communal/ethno centric society thanks in part to bromance between Israel's Netnayahu and India's Modi, and political posturing amidst heightened India-China tensions. India apparently also has one of the largest muslim populations in the world and there had been troubling reports like these suggesting nuke proliferation risks have risen aross the whole region including India.

Indians and Central Asians Are the New Face of the Islamic State

Terrorists from India, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan were never at the forefront of global jihad before—now they are.

By Raffaello Pantucci, a senior associate fellow at Britain’s Royal United Services Institute and a visiting senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/08...islamic-state/

https://publicintegrity.org/national...d-experts-say/

Radioactive Substances Worth ₹ 4,250 Crore Seized In Kolkata, 2 Arrested
Acting on a tip-off from a person, who was apparently approached by the duo for the sale of the four pieces of radioactive material, CID sleuths arrested them, a senior officer said.
August 26, 2021

Uranium is being traded freely in the open market in India
June 11, 2021
The Times of India has reported that a special police team arrested seven persons and recovered 6 Kgs of Uranium from them following raids at different parts of the city on Thursday. Bokaro SP Chandan Kumar Jha said, “We have seized the yellow substance and will send it to experts for tests. Uranium is a highly radioactive substance used at nuclear facilities.”
Police said the accused, suspected of being part of a national gang involved in the illegal uranium trade, searched for customers and fixed its price at Rs 50 lakhs per kg. Notably, a kilogram of Uranium sells for around Rs 18 crores in the global market, sources said. For the first time, Uranium has been seized in this industrial town, but in other parts of India, similar cases were reported several times recently.
moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/06/11/uranium-is-being-traded-freely-in-the-open-market-in-india/

When Girija Babu tried to sell uranium to Israel
A tour of GP Koirala’s misadventures while attempting to raise funds for the revolution.
Published at : May 27, 2021
Sometime in March, the Nepal Police announced it had arrested four individuals on charges of attempting to sell around 2.5 kgs of uranium. The news, as expected, went viral. How the uranium came into their possession is indeed a story by itself. One of the four’s father-in-law worked at a uranium mine in India, and had brought it back to Nepal. For twenty years, the uranium sat at their home. Finally, the daughter-in-law learnt the material was valuable, and tried to sell it off, according to some reports, for Rs1.5 billion—which was when the police swooped in, arrested them, and grandly declared they had busted the racket.

The Diplomat
Online Shopping for Nukes? Tune Into a North Korean
North Korea's broadcasting of national military parades is about more ... aimed at stifling the development of its nuclear weapons program.
Aug 31,2021

Fox News
North Korea appears to have restarted key nuclear
reactor: UN watchdog
Evidence has emerged that North Korea has restarted a nuclear ...
Sep 1, 2021

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Hold up ... just had a thought. I can see the USA & China restoring diplomatic ties with one another. Repairing the damages done by conducting joint missions to share intelligence and to spy on one another. We could even have Russia support it possibly through funding.

We also have six planes "stuck" in Afghanistan supposedly with Americans onboard.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...?ocid=msedgntp