Pakistan blames Afghanistan for the attack on Peshawar air force base

[I.R.A]

Its not Afghanistan's fault

What you said may hold true for Ghani and likes of him, but I won't trust NA and their allies. They don't want peace it is not in their interest. Ghani got punished for relying on Pakistan to assist in peace with AT, and then there was that leadership drama created, now after all when Sartaj Aziz again hinted for peace negotiations Pakistan gets attacked and we see these blame stories. There is someone in Afghanistan itself that does not want peace and this someone is not Ghani.

 

[hell__raider]

We have our Claim on Kashmir so we cannot and will not stop supporting Kashmiri freedom fighters. India may continue calling them Islamic terrorists or may give some other fancy name.

You sent raiders in 1965 to support Kashmiris & have a revolt there. But Kashmiris informed Indian army about Pakistanis & there was no revolt. Stop living in a fantasyland.

 

[Shot-Caller]

What a bullcrap!! Cancer is extremism n that's within you.

And you're from Afghanistan, the land of liberals.

 

[Pakistani till death]

There is a difference between how afghans blame and how we blame. The afghans directly blame isi and the pakistani state which is shocking and unacceptable while if we see gen. Bajwa's speech he never blamed the afghan state and rather just said the attackers came from afghanistan.

 

[coffee_cup]

In nutshell the attackers were fighting for the Indian and Afghan cause then? Mr. Agha is this what you implied here? Or you want us to forget that TTP's number two was arrested while traveling with Afghan agencies? Or the fact that India has no influence on Afghan agencies? And Radio is not in Afghanistan? And Afghans could Singlehandedly fight the AT?

Or

You want us to believe Radio is some PA General who occasionally wears a fake beard to make an appearance and they are themselves hell bent on killing their own soldiers and attacking their installments and establishment? And if this is not the case then what the fck are you trying to say Mr. Agha?

Ignore these foreign paid journalists, man.

We have quite few of those, everyone trying to beat the other to defame and shame Pakistan. The whole DAWN, Express Tribune, Geo is full with those.

Then we have likes of Asma Jahangirs etc as well. I do not want to label anyone anything, but these people will sell even their mothers to get some fame or some bucks.

Sad but true.

 

[I S I]

Can we please finally blacklist Dawn.in now on this forum as a news source?

 

[I.R.A]

Ignore these foreign paid journalists, man.

Name and shame them, they are not going anywhere and our ignorance makes their job more easy.

 

[Winchester]

"The attackers came from Afghanistan," he said, without providing details on his claim.

That is one pathetic piece of reporting !

I was watching the press conference and he clearly mentioned that they had intercepted real time communication between the attackers and their handlers based in Afghanistan.

 

[$@rJen]

Pakistan blames Afghanistan for the attack on Peshawar air force base | News | DW.COM | 18.09.2015

Pakistan's army claims that the militants who attacked an air force base in Peshawar had come from Afghanistan. The assault has also raised doubts about the success of a military operation in the country's northwest.

Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa, the Pakistani army spokesman, told the media on Friday that the security forces had secured the Badaber air force compound after an hours-long firefight, killing all 13 militants. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the assault.

"At least 23 air force personnel, three army soldiers and four civilians" have also been killed, according to Bajwa.



Gunmen stormed the air base on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar early on Friday, triggering a shootout with security forces. The military spokesman said the militants forced their way into the compound's mosque and gunned down people.

A rescue officer said at least 20 wounded were taken to hospital. TV footage showed helicopters hovering above the base as police and troops searched for militants in the area surrounding the compound.

The Afghan 'connection'

Bajwa was quick to point fingers at neighboring Afghanistan at a press conference in Peshawar soon after the end of the assault.

"The attackers came from Afghanistan," he said, without providing details on his claim.

The military spokesman, however, said he did not mean that the Afghan government was involved in the attack.

A rescue officer said at least 20 wounded were taken to hospital

"The government in Kabul likes to blame every terrorist attack on Pakistan, but we don't think that the Afghan state had a role in Friday's attack," Bajwa told reporters, adding that the areas where the militants came from were not under Kabul's control.

But Islamabad-based journalist Abdul Agha disagrees with Bajwa and insists that the Pakistani military must admit the fact that it has not been able to secure the northwestern areas.

"Bajwa and the army have repeatedly been saying that the ongoing military operation, Zarb-e-Azb, has destroyed the terrorists' networks and hideouts in the northwestern areas, but the Friday attack at the heart of the army's own base has proven all these claims wrong," Agha told DW.

Blaming Afghanistan was probably the easiest way to hide this failure, he added.

A dubious operation

Experts say that a crackdown on militancy and an army offensive targeting Taliban bases have both led to a decline in attacks in the country this year. Last December, Taliban gunmen massacred around 150 children and teachers at a military-run school in Peshawar.

Iliyas Bilor, a leader of the opposition Awami National Party, admits that the Peshawar attack "appears to be a reaction against the ongoing military operation," however, he believes that the security forces have been quite successful in eliminating terrorists. "I think the operation must continue," he told DW's Peshawar correspondent, Faridullah Khan.

Yet a number of analysts remain skeptical about the army operation. They say that Pakistan's highly influential generals still distinguish between the "good and bad Taliban" and want to use Islamists to increase their influence in Kabul. That is why, they say, Islamabad has not been able to defeat the jihadist groups.

Islamabad and Kabul regularly blame each other for terrorists attacks

"We now discover that Zarb-e-Azb was aimed at weakening political parties and not eliminating terrorists. Some of the top global terrorists such as Hafiz Saeed and Hizbul Mujahideen's Yusuf Shah are openly leading public rallies, recruiting jihadists, and fundraising," Arif Jamal, a US-based journalist and author of several books on Islamic terrorism and Pakistan, told DW.

Siegfried O. Wolf, a political science expert at Heidelberg University, is of the same view. He told DW that he was convinced that several elements within the Pakistan security apparatus still believe that the Taliban could be used as a strategic tool to counter Indian presence in Afghanistan.

The attacks won't stop until Islamabad overhauls its policies and stops backing Islamists to maintain pressure on Afghanistan and India in the region, Agha emphasized.

So Last TTP attack was blamed on India, this TTP attack is blamed on Afghanistan !!!!???

Either way Finally we Indians can take some rest.

 

[pakdefender]

This war can only end with the total destruction of india and afghsnitan

 

[forcetrip]

He went on and elaborated that it is unfathomable that a muslim would do this to his own brother. And reiterated that no matter what anyone says Afghanistan and Pakistan are brothers. I am just repeating what I remember. Just summarizing.

 

[saiyan0321]

The statement was that their leaders are in the lawless lands of Afghanistan where the Taliban reign supreme. The east side of Afghanistan is like that and that's where the ttp leaders and bases are which must be targeted if we are to eliminate ttp completely.

As for the article. Tbh I would expect such low level dribble from an indiab news paper bent on hating pakistan. Has the author not witnessed the sharp and massive decline in terror activities. Are they so blind in their hate that they cannot see the difference between 2014-2015 and 2010-13 when horror was everywhere?

The fact is that these activities do not mean that zarb e azb has failed. Not by a long shot and you would have to be a special form of mug to say that zarb e axb has targeted politicians. The terror activities in Karachi are at an all time low.

This is unnecessary criticism which is borderline treachery to be honest.

 

[saima naaz]

we do not say that Afghanistan govt are involved but these terrorist come from there

 

[karan.1970]

And here comes another one.

Not worth to be discussed as the 2nd sentence of the article shows the capability of the one who wrote it.

And who said we have blamed Afghanistan, its just mentioned that they came from Afghanistan side since we all know majority of Afghanistan is not under the control of Afghan govt. Even the article mentions that but just for inflaming, its given the title that Afghanistan is accused.

Pathetic.

So if majority of Afghanistan is not controlled by Afghan govt (and you dont blame Afghan Govt for this) , and is controlled by Afghan Taliban, and this attack originated from Afghanistan, then does it not imply that your own strategic assets are turning a blind eye to people attacking you from the areas controlled by them?

 

[Menace2Society]

Only solution is to ally with Taliban and fight proxy with proxy.