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Families flee as Pakistan cracks down along Afghan border

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Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stop a vehicle at a security check point in Peshawar on February 17, 2017

Hundreds of families were fleeing from both sides of Pakistan's border with Afghanistan Monday, officials said, as Islamabad continued a violent crackdown on extremists after multiple attacks last week raised fears of a militant resurgence.

Pakistan has accused Afghanistan of harbouring the militants who carried out last week's attacks, which killed more than 100 people across the country.

The Pakistani military said it used heavy artillery to fire at militant hideouts in Afghanistan Monday, after carrying out airstrikes on both sides of the border over the weekend.

Journalists are not allowed into the area and the claims could not be independently verified.

But officials on the Afghan side said at least six people had been killed, and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said the firing had displaced up to 200 families.

"Military fire across the border into Nangarhar and Kunar Provinces has forced Afghan families to flee their homes... (such) attacks forcibly displace civilians, violating International Humanitarian Law, and must stop," said NRC Country Director in Afghanistan, Kate O'Rourke.

A Pakistani security source told AFP Monday that up to 700 Pakistani families were being evacuated from along the border in Khyber tribal district "to protect them from any retaliatory attack".

Kabul and Islamabad routinely accuse each other of providing safe haven to militants, and the Pakistani government openly admitted it shelters the Afghan Taliban leadership in statements made by the country's top diplomat last year.

On Friday Pakistan gave Afghanistan a list of 76 "Afghan-based" militants and demanded that Kabul take action against them.

In a tit-for-tat move Monday, Afghanistan supplied Islamabad with a list of 85 militants it said were sheltering in Pakistan, calling for similar action.

Pakistan has already closed the two main gates along its porous border with Afghanistan, Torkham at the Khyber Pass and Chaman in Balochistan province. Officials said Monday they would remain closed "indefinitely".

The spike in tensions was triggered by last week's assaults, the deadliest of which was a suicide attack at a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan's Sindh province on Thursday which killed 90 people, according to a new official toll, and which was claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.

A series of other attacks were apparently coordinated by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or Pakistani Taliban), including a bombing in the eastern city of Lahore which killed 14 people and wounded dozens on February 13.

The emergence of IS and a TTP resurgence would be a major blow to Pakistan, which had enjoyed a dramatic improvement in security over the past two years after a military-led crackdown begun in 2014.

But critics have long argued that the government has not addressed the root causes of extremism, and analysts said there were "visible signs" militants were regrouping after last week's attacks.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/families-flee-pakistan-cracks-down-along-afghan-border-153615122.html

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

Pakistan is trying to stop Muslims from leaving a Muslim country and going to a Muslim country to do the things that Muslim immigrants do.

Put on your pussy hats and head over there on your unicorns, and lead them in a rousing chorus of Kumbaya, okay?

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Families flee as Pakistan cracks down along Afghan border

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Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stop a vehicle at a security check point in Peshawar on February 17, 2017

Hundreds of families were fleeing from both sides of Pakistan's border with Afghanistan Monday, officials said, as Islamabad continued a violent crackdown on extremists after multiple attacks last week raised fears of a militant resurgence.

Pakistan has accused Afghanistan of harbouring the militants who carried out last week's attacks, which killed more than 100 people across the country.

The Pakistani military said it used heavy artillery to fire at militant hideouts in Afghanistan Monday, after carrying out airstrikes on both sides of the border over the weekend.

Journalists are not allowed into the area and the claims could not be independently verified.

But officials on the Afghan side said at least six people had been killed, and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said the firing had displaced up to 200 families.

"Military fire across the border into Nangarhar and Kunar Provinces has forced Afghan families to flee their homes... (such) attacks forcibly displace civilians, violating International Humanitarian Law, and must stop," said NRC Country Director in Afghanistan, Kate O'Rourke.

A Pakistani security source told AFP Monday that up to 700 Pakistani families were being evacuated from along the border in Khyber tribal district "to protect them from any retaliatory attack".

Kabul and Islamabad routinely accuse each other of providing safe haven to militants, and the Pakistani government openly admitted it shelters the Afghan Taliban leadership in statements made by the country's top diplomat last year.

On Friday Pakistan gave Afghanistan a list of 76 "Afghan-based" militants and demanded that Kabul take action against them.

In a tit-for-tat move Monday, Afghanistan supplied Islamabad with a list of 85 militants it said were sheltering in Pakistan, calling for similar action.

Pakistan has already closed the two main gates along its porous border with Afghanistan, Torkham at the Khyber Pass and Chaman in Balochistan province. Officials said Monday they would remain closed "indefinitely".

The spike in tensions was triggered by last week's assaults, the deadliest of which was a suicide attack at a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan's Sindh province on Thursday which killed 90 people, according to a new official toll, and which was claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.

A series of other attacks were apparently coordinated by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or Pakistani Taliban), including a bombing in the eastern city of Lahore which killed 14 people and wounded dozens on February 13.

The emergence of IS and a TTP resurgence would be a major blow to Pakistan, which had enjoyed a dramatic improvement in security over the past two years after a military-led crackdown begun in 2014.

But critics have long argued that the government has not addressed the root causes of extremism, and analysts said there were "visible signs" militants were regrouping after last week's attacks.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/families-flee-pakistan-cracks-down-along-afghan-border-153615122.html

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

Incidentally, how many here had heard before now, that Muslims slaughtered 100 Sikhs in Pakistan during the past week?

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

Incidentally, how many here had heard before now, that Muslims slaughtered 100 Sikhs in Pakistan during the past week?

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What are you on about?

All I know is that the Pakistanis at a few other convenience stores are ahead of the game when it comes to customer service vs. some Pakistanis at this one store nearby, which is why I avoid the latter.

Who's fucking with you, bro?

YOU, and nobody else.

You need to get out more, princess.

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BTW, we hear no complaints from you regarding 10 yr. old kids in Pakistan sewing together soccer balls for 10 yr. old kids in Europe and North America to kick around.

Of course not.

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It is weird that anyone read that Yahoo article and thought, "This is about border control!" It isn't. Not even in the slightest. It's about tensions between two countries, with both saying the other is harboring fugitives from justice-- and given that Pakistan is where the Obama administration found and dealt with Osama Bin Laden, it's a very old story we already know. They closed their borders with each other, for good reason: they ARE harboring fugitives from each other.

That you see an analogy for the U.S. refusing legal travel visas from the countries that do NOT have a history of creating terrorists, and accepting the travel visas of people coming from the places the 9/11 attackers come from, suggests that willful ignorance I've brought up elsewhere. You have access to all the information you need to know these facts, but choose instead to swallow anything that fits your worldview-- and then attempt to lamely re-contextualize this information with the sloppy hands of a seventh grader, to push your arrogant worldview on others. Shameless and lame.

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I thought this is why Bush II started the whole thing by allowing the reduction of Iraq into a sectarian war and deliberately allowing al-Zarqawi to stay alive long enough to declare himself caliphate of ISIS.

The neocons wanted this and they got this...Muslim killing Muslim and anybody else that gets in the way. In that they are the same race...racism doesn't follow.

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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I thought this is why Bush II started the whole thing by allowing the reduction of Iraq into a sectarian war and deliberately allowing al-Zarqawi to stay alive long enough to declare himself caliphate of ISIS.

The neocons wanted this and they got this...Muslim killing Muslim and anybody else that gets in the way. In that they are the same race...racism doesn't follow.

The usual leftist drooler stupidity

Muslims have been attacking Sikhs in Pakistan for 500 years because of George Bush

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

I thought this is why Bush II started the whole thing by allowing the reduction of Iraq into a sectarian war and deliberately allowing al-Zarqawi to stay alive long enough to declare himself caliphate of ISIS.

The neocons wanted this and they got this...Muslim killing Muslim and anybody else that gets in the way. In that they are the same race...racism doesn't follow.

The usual leftist drooler stupidity

Muslims have been attacking Sikhs in Pakistan for 500 years because of George Bush

Sometimes you seem to deliberately get off track. From YOUR OP:

Pakistan is trying to stop Muslims from leaving a Muslim country and going to a Muslim country.

That's NOT racist and has nothing whatever to do with Sikhs or racism.

As I wrote, the neocons now have what they wanted all along.