That’s my view on what has happened between both nations- Pakistan egged on by the Trump administration has attacked Afghanistan. To be clear Pakistan and the US have been fast military friends for a very long time.
Trump met Shehbaz Sharif and General Asim Munir in the Whitehouse a couple of weeks back. In a CLOSED to the PRESS meeting
What else may be going on?
Trump admin has been pushing to retake Afghan base from the Taliban for months, sources say
President Donald Trump has been quietly (not so quietly) pushing his national security officials for months to find a way to get Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan back from the Taliban, three people familiar with the matter told CNN.
Pakistan would be the most convenient proxy to use in to achieve this goal
Trump hinted at those discussions publicly for the first time on Thursday, telling reporters that his administration is working to regain control of the base, which lies an hour north of Kabul. The Taliban took it over following the collapse of the Afghan government and the US military withdrawal in 2021.
“We gave it to (the Taliban) for nothing,” Trump said during a joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday.
“We’re trying to get it back, by the way.”
He did NOT say we’re going to get it back- He said “We’re trying (presently) to get it back, by the way“
“We were going to get out, but we were going to keep Bagram, not because of Afghanistan but because of China, because it’s exactly one hour away from where China makes its nuclear missiles,” he said in March. “We were going to keep a small force on Bagram.”
Afghan Taliban says Pakistani troops killed in ‘retaliatory’ border attacks
The Taliban government has confirmed that it attacked Pakistani troops in multiple mountainous locations on the northern border.
A Taliban spokesman said 58 Pakistan military personnel had been killed in what it called “an act of retaliation”. It claimed Pakistan had violated Afghan airspace and bombed a market inside its border on Thursday.
Afghan’s foreign minister said in a press conference in New Delhi that “we have no problems” with Pakistan’s people and its leadership but added “there are some groups in Pakistan that are trying to spoil the situation. Afghanistan has a right to keep its territory and its borders safe, and so it has retaliated to the violation.”
Not a market- A square- Like some sort of town square, read below
A blast struck before 10 p.m. local time on Thursday in the Abdul Haq Square area of Kabul, close to several ministries and the national intelligence agency. Security forces sealed off the site.
The government’s chief spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said at the time that there were no reports of injuries or damage. He described the explosion as an accident and said an investigation was underway.
Unsurprisingly, India, Russia and China do not agree with Trump‘s Plans
India, Russia, China Back Afghanistan Against Trump’s Play for Bagram Air Base: Why US Wants it Back & What’s the Opposition About?
Few weeks after US President Donald Trump expressed his intention to take over Afghanistan’s Bagram air base, India has joined the Taliban, Pakistan, China and Russia to oppose Trump’s move. This comes just few days before the scheduled visit of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi later this week.
Releasing a joint statement, the participants of Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan said on Tuesday, “They (the participants) called unacceptable the attempts by countries to deploy their military infrastructure in Afghanistan and neighboring states, since this does not serve the interests of regional peace and stability.”
The seventh session of the Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan was held in Moscow and saw the presence of special representatives and senior officials from Afghanistan, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. A delegation from Belarus also attended the meeting as guests.
“For the first time, the Afghan delegation headed by Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi participated in the meeting as a member,” the statement read.
Pakistan attacked Afghanistan. Afghanistan retaliated. As of today, that’s my best assessment- This was an event one could have predicted.