Re:Friendly policies keep US oil and coal afloat far more th...
by abdullahkhalids on Monday June 24, 2019 @05:49AM
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To those reading this, while most/all of this true, the security situation in this region of Pakistan has improved greatly over the last ten years, due to several internal military campaigns by the Pakistan army. Last year, the northwestern part of Pakistan, which was previously its own territory had become stable enough to be incorporated into the nearest province (KPK). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_logistics_in_the_Afghan_W...
The situation was unstable, as much of northeast Pakistan is only loosely under government control and there are quite a lot of anti-US militants there: https://www.rferl.org/a/NATO_Supply_Route_Imperiled_As_Pakis...
The intermittent engagement between US troops and cross-border Taliban resulted in the US bombing a Pakistani Army post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_NATO_attack_in_Pakistan
Not unreasonably, this upset the Pakistani Army: https://www.pri.org/stories/2011-12-02/pakistan-truckers-app... "The head of Pakistan's army Friday gave the go-ahead for his soldiers to return fire on US troops, if attacked"
The US backed down rather rapidly when it realized that going to war with Pakistan would result in the total stranding of their forces in Afghanistan. It has never been entirely clear whether some of the loosely controlled Pakistani intelligence services are supporting the Taliban or not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Services_Intelligence_ac...