Pakistan's Army Chief General Raheel Sharif (L) and Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani. Press TV
Pakistani Army Chief Asks Afghans to Help Find Taliban Commanders Behind Massacre -- New York Times
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan’s army chief, Gen. Raheel Sharif, traveled to Afghanistan on Wednesday to seek help in locating the Pakistani Taliban commanders who orchestrated the massacre at a Peshawar school on Tuesday in which 148 people, mostly schoolchildren, were killed.
General Sharif and the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency, Lt. Gen. Rizwan Akhtar, flew to Kabul, the capital, for meetings with President Ashraf Ghani and Gen. John F. Campbell, the commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, the Pakistani military said.
The sudden trip came as Pakistanis united in horror and grief at Tuesday’s assault, in which Taliban gunmen stormed the Army Public School and Degree College, firing randomly, throwing grenades and lining up some students to be executed. Of the 148 fatalities, 132 were students.
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Pakistan army chief, Afghan president vow to jointly fight terror -- Press TV
My Comment: The governments in both Afghanistan and Pakistan are facing the same enemy conducting the same strategy of targeting children of the elite .... Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan are targeting children of the elite (CSM). But considering their history of suspicion and Pakistan's long history of supporting Islamic militant groups in their war against the Kabul government .... I doubt this commitment to a new period of cooperation is going to last long.
1 comment:
I think it's already over.
The PakTA are a different collection of groups than the AFTA,
Both are ISI creations in part, one supported to go after Afghanistan, the other, a Kashmir/GOTV project.
Only one has been sort of abandoned by Pakistan, but maybe not fully by the ISI.
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