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Pakistani troops patrol the Pakistan-Afghan border
Late at night on October 11th, intensive gunfire suddenly sounded on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Afghan Taliban forces launched raids on several border posts in Pakistan, and Pakistan immediately dispatched tanks and artillery to fight back. The two sides fought for several hours.
The latest news is that under Qatar's emergency mediation, the two sides temporarily ceased fire.But on the number of casualties, the two sides each said - the Afghan Taliban said they killed 58 Pakistani soldiers, the Pakistani army acknowledged that 23 people were killed, 29 people were wounded, while saying they killed more than 200 Arabs.
▲ Atta Humvee Charge
There is an interesting detail at the scene of the firefight: the Taliban troops drove all Hummer off-road vehicles to the front line, one after another, and there were no other brands in the convoy. This standard American equipment really looks like that. The mechanization level of ground troops, the Taliban may really be better than Pakistan.
Everyone could think of that day.
This is no joke. When the U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, they left a lot of good things for the Taliban: military equipment worth about US $7.1 billion, including 167 aircraft, more than 40,000 Humvees and armored vehicles, and 300,000 firearms and weapons, as well as more than 40,000 sets of supporting equipment such as night vision devices. Pakistan has fought "legal machinery" before, but this time it's the turn to confront "American machinery" head-on.
▲ Pakistani air strikes Kabul on the 10th
On the morning of October 10, when Pakistan launched airstrikes on the Afghan capital Kabul and several other cities, the Afghan Taliban jumped out and accused Pakistan of "violating sovereignty." While the Pakistani officials were unclear whether they were doing this, the Pakistani military spokesman had a tough attitude: "What we should do to protect the security of the Pakistani people." He also warned Afghanistan not to turn its land into a hammer of terrorists.
Terrorist attacks in Pakistan have intensified since Atta took office.
The Afghan Taliban have been holding the “Pakistan Taliban Movement” (TTP) gang, which began terrorist attacks in Pakistan in 2021 and killed hundreds of Pakistani soldiers, and the group is said to have been training in Afghanistan, and the relationship with the ruling Afghan Taliban is not small. Pakistani security analysts say: “Pakistan’s patience has long been exhausted.
▲ The British colonial rulers left a mess around the world
What's more troublesome is that this conflict also involves a 130-year-old account. The 2,600-kilometer "Duran Line" between Pakistan and Afghanistan was randomly drawn on the map by British colonists in 1893, cutting the Pashtuns in half. Successive Afghan governments have never recognized this line, and the Taliban clearly refused to recognize it in 2023 after they came to power. This boundary line through rugged mountainous areas itself is controversial, and the two sides refuse to give way to each other on some strategic areas, so friction is naturally indispensable. In 2022 alone, there have been 18 conflicts, large and small, on this line.
From the point of view of the fire configuration, the two sides have invested a lot of guys. The Pakistani army used cannons, tanks and various heavy weapons, and focused fire at four border points. The Taliban, thanks to the U.S. army’s arsenal of equipment, maneuverability and fire capacity are beyond expectation. The U.S. Hornets, although generally defended, but ran really fast in the mountains, and the captured M113 armored vehicles and anti-mines also gave the Taliban some depression. But backwards, having equipment is one thing, will not be another thing – can the Taliban not maintain these complex equipment, can not build a decent command system, are all questions.
▲ War is accompanied by a refugee crisis
With the conflict, Pakistan closed several border ports with Afghanistan, a large number of Afghan refugees stuck in the border. Iran, Qatar and Saudi countries rushed out to persuade, and eventually with the mediation of Qatar was a ceasefire. But as experts say, "even if the heat is now, the problem is far away. "TTP is not resolved, the disputes on the Durand line are still, the Taliban government can not control, these deep contradictions will not disappear by a ceasefire.
There is also another data worth noting: Since 2025, the number of attacks on Pakistan's border has increased by 30% compared with the same period last year. The Pakistani army suffered more than 20 casualties in the conflicts in June and September (Pakistani caliber). For Pakistan, the constant instability of the border not only consumes military strength, but also threatens domestic security. For the Afghan Taliban, who had just taken office not long ago, fighting with neighbors will only make them more isolated and make their already poor economy even more difficult.