MENA WATCH NEWS : PAKISTAN BEHIND THE TALIBAN

4.9.2021 – #Pakistan‘s use of #Islamists to interfere in #Afghanistan does not begin in 1979—that jihad project had begun in 1973 and all the Mujahideen groups were formed before the Soviet invasion—but the origins go back to c. 1956 for a cluster of reasons. <Mini Thread>

Kyle Orton

Quite the phrasing here from @Politico

: “Pakistan has been more helpful to the United States in its fight against Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, but even that cooperation has been questioned,” given, you know, Bin Laden being sheltered near Pakistan’s premier Army garrison

“The Biden administration has been unusually circumspect about revealing its contacts and discussions with Pakistan.” Presumably trying to figure out if the ISI and the Haqqani Network are separate entities. (Spoiler: they are not)

4.9.2021 – While #Pakistan‘s death squads were at work in #Afghanistan, its ambassador in the US, Asad Majeed Khan, told officials “[the Taliban] were not seeking retribution, and in fact were going home to home to assure Afghans that there will not be reprisals”

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