The big question that’s been asked, and not answered, is how the Taliban were able to so quickly take over Afghanistan. The answer is the same one as the old question, “Where’s Osama bin Laden”.
Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan are a Pakistani project.
The Taliban took over Afghanistan so rapidly because they had a state behind them with wealth, intelligence and military capabilities, and the leverage to cut deals.
America left, Pakistan entered.
Much like the location of Osama and what that meant, it’s a subject that the media is reluctant to discuss. And when it does discuss it, it’s pure spin. The Washington Post, the Bezos-owned social justice government tabloid, never tires to churning out Islamist spin. It turned Osama pal Jamal Khashoggi into the new Islamist Horst Wessel. It figures the paper would get the Pakistani scoop.
The Post spin is that Pakistan is just backing the Taliban to fight ISIS. That’s a transparently phony claim so convincing it ought to come with a free bridge in New York.
As the Islamic State-Khorasan is ramping up attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan is using a network of informal channels to feed intelligence and technical support to the Taliban to combat the threat, according to two Taliban leaders.
Pakistan is passing the group raw information as well as helping it monitor phone and Internet communication to identify Islamic State members and operational hubs, according to a senior Taliban leader who, along with a Taliban commander and others in this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
A Pakistani official described the communication between the two sides as informal discussions, rather than an established intelligence-sharing partnership.
This just happened, did it? Overnight.
A day after the Taliban seized power in Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani fled the war-torn country, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said Afghans have “broken the chains of slavery in the country.”
This is the first bit of mainstream media reporting that even mentions Pakistan’s role in aiding the Taliban. It provides at least a partial picture of what that aid entails.
What were our own intel agencies doing while Pakistan was feeding material to the Taliban? Fighting the pronoun wars and focusing on diversity.
Obviously.
John says
Unlike ISIS and the Taliban, Pakistan doesn’t want to kill all the Christians in their country. They’d have no one to clean the sewers.
mortimer says
No, Pakistan keeps the Christians so they may have dhimmis to persecute and torment. What a dysfunctional, corrupt and backwards country Puke-istan truly is. Sharia-authoritarianism always creates the same corrupt, dysfunctional dictatorship that everyone wants to escape.
gravenimage says
It’s also true that most sewer workers in Pakistan are Christian. This is dirty and dangerous work there, and is not done by Muslims.
DavidR says
I don’t think the WP has reporters anymore. They just have a room where a bunch of people with degrees in communication read AP and Reuters feeds then invent a storyline around them that does one or more of these things:
1. Make Israel look bad or worse.
2. Make anything or anybody associated with Conservatism look bad.
3. Blame Trump.
4. Elevate leftists ideals.
5. Invent additional “facts” if nothing actually happened.
6. Contain quotes from unverified and questionable sources.
7. Ignore every speck of contradictory evidence.
8. Whine about the personal issues of the author.
James Lincoln says
Yes, DavidR.
And those newsfeeds from the Associated Press / Reuters are “processed” by Leftist mainstream media propagandists.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Westman says
One would think in the game of intellect, Islam with 400 times the population of Jews, could field a winning team yet doesn’t even qualify for the Nobel competition.
Cricket doesn’t change the world and when touted as a win for Islam, rather than for an athletic team, is an absurd return to conquest thinking. Think 1936 Olympic games. One wonders if Pakistan’s leadership is about to embark on some conquest.
Wellington says
WaPo, as with the NYT, has become, effectively, an enemy of America and the West.
One knows this by now or should know it.
mortimer says
So true. Wellington calls their game. They hate the country that is the greatest wealth and freedom generator on earth. The WaPo is a tool of capitalist billionaires who have craftily co-opted the Leftard movement so that they may conquer the American middle class and keep them down. WaPo are mere minions (actually well-paid presstitutes) who help the Big Players get bigger and more irresistible.
The Big Players of Big Tech, Big Shipping and Big Money are now so big they can even control judges, control poll offices, steal elections and get away with it thanks to the judges and presstitutes that cover up their crimes while calumniating all the little boys who cry that the emperor has no clothes..
gravenimage says
Washington Post Spins Pakistan’s Military Support of Taliban
…………..
Just despicable.
Infidel says
If Pakistan had to choose b/w Taliban and ISIS, they’d pick ISIS. ISIS has branches in Bangladesh and most recently, in Kerala in India, so that’s an asset that Pakistan would very much want
Taliban, otoh, has a branch in Pakistan called Tehreek-e-Taliban. That group is opposed to the Pak government, so if Pakistan had to pick one of the parties, who do you think they’d pick?
WaPo’s international ‘journalism’ is as specious as their coverage of the Trump Administration
PMK says
Infidel,
Pakistan may want ISIS assets in Kerala and in Bangladesh, but do they really have any chance of exercising influence in those areas?
Kerala has the highest literacy rate and the highest life expectancy of states within India. It’s the second least impoverished state. Its economy is the eighth largest in India and it’s over fifty percent Hindu. It’s also a key tourist destination.
Unlike Afghanistan, it’s also far removed from Pakistan, in southwest India. ISIS might have influence there because the gulf oil boom in the 1970’s led many Keralans to find work in the Middle East. So maybe those ties to the Middle East might give some Keralans a connection to ISIS, but is it enough?
Same goes for Bangladesh. It fought for independence decades ago. How many people want Pakistan interfering in their affairs now?
Afghanistan is easy. It’s next door and it’s a safe haven for terrorists and a large part of the population is Pashtun, same as in Pakistan. ISIS might have outposts in these other regions, but do you really think Pakistan can gain much influence, even among fellow Muslims? It would seem that even Muslims in those areas have more to lose by allowing Pakistan to gain influence.
Infidel says
PMK
First on Bangladesh, and then on Kerala
The Bangladesh of 1971 is not the Bangladesh of today. For people from that era, language was the #1 issue, and the fact that Bengali was not at par w/ Urdu even though a plurality of Pakistanis spoke it was what set off that campaign. Fast forward 50 years, and much of that generation is dead. The bulk of Bangladeshis have only lived under an independent Bangladesh, where language is not an issue, so islam has made a comeback to #1 in the priority list. Among Bangladeshi jihadis, there is a regret that they broke away from Pakistan in the first place, whenever it’s pointed out that it was India that enabled that country to become independent
As far as Kerala goes, the literacy rate is overrated, as that state has switched b/w communist and socialist every election cycle, w/ muslims holding the balance of power. Even after 2014, while most other Indian states have BJP as at least one of their main players, that cycle hasn’t ended in Kerala. That state has been one of the worst managed in terms of the Chinavirus, and the elected Marxist government there pretty brazenly practices double standards – allowing superspreader Eid gatherings and then clamping down on a local non-muslim festival Onam. There were 2 high profile companies who pulled out of Kerala this year b’cos of business-hostile climate, and moved to other states in India. And speaking about literacy, it was this state that some months ago saw a Christian expat in the UAE convert to islam b’cos ‘islam honors Christ’, and went off to Libya to do a suicide bombing. The ‘above 50% Hindu’ assumes here that communists are Hindus, which is very refutable
In India, one commentator noted that Pakistan is not a territory, it’s a concept – of pan-islamism in the subcontinent, known in Urdu as ‘ghazwa e Hind’. As RS once noted, muslims in India have dual loyalties – to their own leaders within India, and to Pakistan. It’s another thing that within Pakistan itself, there are the same sort of ethnic divisions that there are in Iran and Iraq, but in India, some 85% of muslims see themselves as soldiers of Pakistan (which is obvious by all the reports of them celebrating India’s defeat against Pakistan in the cricket match yesterday)
gravenimage says
Thanks for the background, guys.
Relic says
Jammu and Kashmir
somehistory says
Recalling the interview John Miller had with bin laden so many years ago, when the terrorist and his group found out how they were being ‘tracked,’ and that they were hiding out in the mountains that bordered with pakistan,
And pakistan was getting money from the U.S…meaning, tax-paying Americans…because they said they were fighting terrorism….Everyone should have been investigating the pakistan mozlum version of the word “terrorism.”
As far as the mozlum mind-set…the one that says they can lie any old time if it will benefit islam, mozlums in an they way, and esp if it will upset the infidel’s apple-carts…they were helping their fellow “freedom-fighters,” when they helped hide bin laden and helped the taliban in any and all ways they could. In the twisted mind of the mozlum, devoted to satan’s cause, they were “fighting terrorism.”
And the taxpayer in America was helping them fund, sponsor and aid the taliban, and helping to hide bin laden and his many wives and children….and lie about it like fleas on a dog lie in the matted fur.
And the U.S. government still gives the taxpayers’ hard earned money away to terrorists…and pretends that they ‘care’ about American citizens.
It’s been through the spin-cycle, now it can be hung out to dry in the light of Truth.