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Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the tribal areas. Map from PBS’ Frontline. Click to view. |
Yet another foreign diplomat has been targeted in Pakistan’s Taliban-infested Northwest Frontier Province. “Unknown gunmen” kidnapped Hashmatullah Atharzadeh, the commercial attach
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No honor among thieves, I suppose.
US and Iranian interest overlap in Afghanistan. Perhaps the new US administration can make something out of this, in dealing with the Taliban threat.
Well:
it could be bandits, or
an intelligence operation to generate distrust between Iran and the Taliban, or
an operation to disguise a large cash donation as a ransom payment.
Just to increase the paranoya.