While working to mediate an end to the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, the Pakistani government is escalating its own war against civilians on the border with Afghanistan.
Thank. you so much, Emran Feroz, for this excellent and detailed reporting on what is happening to the people of Kunar, Nooristan and Khost and others on this western fabricated "border" of Afghanistan by the Pakistan military and the terrible violence and conditions they are facing. Their situation is heartbreaking. The western press reports nothing and at the very least those of us whom this report reaches can bear witness and hold them in our prayers.
I remember a time when Washington DC and the American think tank and media establishment were telling everyone Afghanistan and Pakistan, referred to as AfPak, were the most consequential geopolitical entities in the world.
Thousands and thousands of men, women and children died, many more were wounded for life and millions displaced because of such enthusiasm, while the US wasted trillions of dollars on madcap schemes from men like Khalizad, Petraeus, McChrystal and Crockett, and war lords and drug barons got rich.
Now nothing is said in the US about the men, women and children of Afghanistan; although the generals and ambassadors sit on boards and lecture at universities, the war lords and drug barons enjoy their seaside villas, and all those smart people in Washington DC who got AfPak so wrong and did so much harm have senior titles, larger offices and second homes.
Thank you Emran and Drop Site for continuing to remember and report on the Afghans.
My family is from Bannu, which has experienced many terrorist attacks. Just yesterday three women and a child were killed. That is just as unacceptable as the killings of Afghan civilians. Do you think if Afghanistan accepted the border and pledged to prosecute the terrorists, that it would lead to peace? When only one country accepts the border, that is a recipe for problems. Many countries have borders that were drawn up by western countries. In the interest of peace, it is long past time for Afghanistan to accept the internationally accepted border.
The greedy unelected representatives of the Pakistan Government will do anything their masters, the Americans ask. It's actually just as disgusting as nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
God how awful. Civilization is less than civilized but corrupt with violence dominating. Where is there beauty and poetry? It ceases to exist, nowhere to be found.
Thank. you so much, Emran Feroz, for this excellent and detailed reporting on what is happening to the people of Kunar, Nooristan and Khost and others on this western fabricated "border" of Afghanistan by the Pakistan military and the terrible violence and conditions they are facing. Their situation is heartbreaking. The western press reports nothing and at the very least those of us whom this report reaches can bear witness and hold them in our prayers.
I remember a time when Washington DC and the American think tank and media establishment were telling everyone Afghanistan and Pakistan, referred to as AfPak, were the most consequential geopolitical entities in the world.
Thousands and thousands of men, women and children died, many more were wounded for life and millions displaced because of such enthusiasm, while the US wasted trillions of dollars on madcap schemes from men like Khalizad, Petraeus, McChrystal and Crockett, and war lords and drug barons got rich.
Now nothing is said in the US about the men, women and children of Afghanistan; although the generals and ambassadors sit on boards and lecture at universities, the war lords and drug barons enjoy their seaside villas, and all those smart people in Washington DC who got AfPak so wrong and did so much harm have senior titles, larger offices and second homes.
Thank you Emran and Drop Site for continuing to remember and report on the Afghans.
I appreciate Drop Site. Thank you for reporting and exposing the human cost of empire. Solidarity.
Corrupt fascists are all the same - in Asia, Africa to Europe & America.
My family is from Bannu, which has experienced many terrorist attacks. Just yesterday three women and a child were killed. That is just as unacceptable as the killings of Afghan civilians. Do you think if Afghanistan accepted the border and pledged to prosecute the terrorists, that it would lead to peace? When only one country accepts the border, that is a recipe for problems. Many countries have borders that were drawn up by western countries. In the interest of peace, it is long past time for Afghanistan to accept the internationally accepted border.
The greedy unelected representatives of the Pakistan Government will do anything their masters, the Americans ask. It's actually just as disgusting as nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Truly Reprehensible!
God how awful. Civilization is less than civilized but corrupt with violence dominating. Where is there beauty and poetry? It ceases to exist, nowhere to be found.