Is Pakistan setting up a buffer zone in Afghanistan?
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“Pakistan works on positioning itself as potential mediator in the war between the US, Israel, and Iran”
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“Pakistani forces continue to wage war on the Afghan Taliban along Pakistan's western border”
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— An armed conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan began in late February 2026 following Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan's Nangarhar, Paktika, and Khost provinces. Pakistan said the strikes target…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Afghanistan–Pakistan_conf…
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— The Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes are a series of armed clashes consisting of cross-border airstrikes and exchanges of gunfire between the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan–Pakistan_clashes_(…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan–Pakistan_clashes_(…
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— The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or simply the Pakistani Taliban, is a Deobandi jihadist militant organization that primarily operates along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border. It is designated as a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban
“Pakistani forces are increasingly bombing border regions in Afghanistan”
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“Reports have emerged Islamabad is working on creating a sphere of influence along the border”
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“A 'Pakistan-Afghanistan Peace Jirga' convened on March 31 in Peshawar”
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— The Afghan mujahideen were Islamist militant groups that fought against the Afghanistan government and the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War and the subsequent Afghan Civil War.
The term mujah…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_mujahideen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_mujahideen
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— A jirga (Pashto: جرګه, jərga) is an assembly of leaders that makes decisions by consensus according to Pashtunwali, the Pashtun social code. It is conducted in order to settle disputes among the Pasht…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jirga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jirga
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— The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or simply the Pakistani Taliban, is a Deobandi jihadist militant organization that primarily operates along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border. It is designated as a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban
“The assembly issued a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire”
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— The 2007 Kurram Agency conflict, also known as the Siege of Parachinar, began on 6 April 2007 in Kurram Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan when a group of Sunni gunmen opened fire o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Kurram_Agency_conflict
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— Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced the holding of a consultative grand council called the Afghanistan's National Consultative Peace Jirga (NCPJ) or Peace Jirga in his inauguration speech on 19 No…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Peace_Jirga_2010
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Peace_Jirga_2010
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— A jirga (Pashto: جرګه, jərga) is an assembly of leaders that makes decisions by consensus according to Pashtunwali, the Pashtun social code. It is conducted in order to settle disputes among the Pasht…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jirga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jirga
“Pakistan's defense minister said Islamabad was in a state of 'open war' with Afghanistan”
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“Pakistan accuses Afghanistan's Taliban-ruled government of supporting militant groups like the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP)”
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“The initial clashes took place in the fall of 2025”
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“Pakistani forces targeted Afghan capital, Kabul”
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“Reports are emerging of a security zone stretching up to 32 kilometers inside Afghan territory”
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“The Taliban in Afghanistan have rejected reports of Pakistani forces on Afghan soil”
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“Tahir Khan stated Pakistan considers the frontier with Afghanistan an international border”
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“Ali K. Chishti confirmed the establishment of a buffer zone”
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“The Durand Line was named after Henry Mortimer Durand and formally drawn in 1893”
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“Human Rights Watch described a Pakistani airstrike in Kabul as an 'unlawful attack'”
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“Pakistani diplomat Asif Durrani stated Pakistan has made clear demands to the Afghan Taliban”
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