From the late night of the 11th to the early morning of the 12th, China's two major neighbors, Pakistan and Afghanistan, fought at the border. The Afghan Taliban said it was revenge against Pakistan. According to the information disclosed by both sides, the conflict caused nearly 100 casualties.
What exactly is the Taliban’s “revenge” and are there other countries behind the conflict?
In the early morning of October 10, Pakistan took the lead. Pakistan used JF-17 "Xiaolong" fighter jets, F16 fighter jets and pterosaur drones to bomb four major cities in Afghanistan. The main target this time was the Pakistan Taliban.
Why did Pakistan suddenly launch this operation? In fact, it was because the people of Bata had launched high terrorist attacks in Pakistan before, and then they went to Afghanistan. Pakistan was very angry and believed that the Afghan Taliban were shielding them. Pakistan believed that this operation was protecting the security of its own country.
The Taliban definitely did not recognize it and directly said that Pakistan was violating their sovereignty. They also said that Pakistan's action had injured civilian facilities and lodged a strong protest.
Not long after the protest, the situation escalated again. Late at night on the 11th, the Afghan Taliban launched a large-scale attack on the Pakistani border post under the banner of "retaliation for violation of sovereignty". The fight lasted until Mausoleum City on the 12th. The Afghan side bombarded Pakistani posts with artillery, and said that 25 Pakistani posts had been captured.
Pakistan destroyed several training bases they thought were in Bata to plan the attack.On the day of the 12th, Pakistan simply closed a number of border ports, and the relationship between the two countries suddenly fell to a low valley.
Prior to this, the relationship between Pakistan and the Taliban has been good, during the Afghan civil war in 1994, Pakistan gave people and money to support the Taliban, then the Taliban gradually developed to tens of thousands, also became a major force in Afghanistan, during which time, the relationship between the two sides is still good.
But Pakistan did not think, once helped the "little brother", now in turn to deal with themselves. In 2007, the Pakistani Taliban was founded with the support of Ata, then also said to overthrow the Pakistani government, but Pakistan remembered the brotherhood, never said anything, even tacitly Bata activity in Afghanistan, Pakistan's several counter-terrorism, all because the militants ran to Afghanistan and failed.
It is worth mentioning that after the conflict, the difference in the number of casualties counted by the two sides is not a little bit. According to Pakistan, Pakistani security forces killed 23 people and wounded 29 others, and more than 200 "Pakistani Taliban" militants were killed.
However, according to the Afghan side, 58 people were killed and 30 others were injured in the conflict, and 9 people were killed and more than a dozen others were injured on the Taliban side.
The Afghan government spokesman made it very clear that this action was to retaliate against Pakistan's violation of Afghanistan's sovereignty. He also warned Pakistan that if it dared to do so again, it would definitely be countered. He also said that Bata was not a terrorist organization, but a "national brother", and that Pakistan's own internal problems had nothing to do with Afghanistan, and should not involve Afghanistan.
There is also something about India.
Just the day before the Ba'a battle, Afghan Foreign Minister Mutaki suddenly went to India, and the two sides also said that India's technical team in Kabul was upgraded to an embassy, although India has not yet officially recognized the Taliban regime, but this has been enough to show a major breakthrough in Afghan-Pakistan relations, after all, before the two countries were deadly enemies.
Seeing the relationship between the two countries closer, Pakistan is of course in a hurry, the relationship between ATA and India is better, in the view of the Pakistan side is "bite the knife behind the back", and more so Pakistan is unacceptable, in the joint statement of India and Afghanistan, Afghanistan also said that controlling Kashmir is India's, which is simply not taking the sacrifice of the local people as a matter.
Now, with the mediation of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan have said they will not fight, but this does not mean that the conflict has been completely resolved. Although the Taliban stopped, they still stressed that they would resolutely defend their land.
In the long run, the tension on the border has not been completely eased, and how the security issue in South Asia will be resolved depends not only on the attitude of the two Bahá'í countries, but also on the constant attention and help of the international community.