Pakistan Fears US Afghan Offensive Will Spill Into Balochistan

Early this month, thousands of US Marines launched what is being called the largest single ground operation in Afghanistan since the Soviet occupation of the mid-1980’s in the Helmand River Valley. The southern region is teeming with Taliban and suspicious villagers.

The US has promised to occupy the region over the long-term to prevent the Taliban from returning, though by and large the residents welcomed the Taliban when they chased out the crooked Afghan national police. So far the operation’s most noteworthy effect was destroying enormous numbers of poppy seeds grown by local farmers. Pakistan is concerned that it might become their problem too, however.

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