HEADLINE: Escalating Border Conflict Between Pakistan and Afghanistan GUEST NAMES: Bill Roggio, Husain Haqqani SUMMARY: A major border conflict has erupted between Pakistan and Afghanistan, resulting in significant casualties and air strikes. The tensio
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
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GUEST NAMES: Bill Roggio, Husain Haqqani
SUMMARY: A major border conflict has erupted between Pakistan and Afghanistan, resulting in significant casualties and air strikes. The tension is rooted in the Afghan Taliban supporting the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) and historical issues over the Durand Line. Pakistan views the Afghan Taliban as ungrateful clients, threatening Pakistan's stability.
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| 0:30.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:36.7 | I welcome my good colleagues Bill Rajo, Senior Fellow Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, |
| 0:40.7 | and Asana Kani, former ambassador from Pakistan of the United States, |
| 0:42.5 | as Senior Fellow to Hudson Institute. |
| 0:47.2 | Gentlemen, fog of war about what we have from Al Jazeera in these last hours. |
| 0:51.5 | Pakistan's military says it killed more than 200 Taliban and other fighters in overnight border clashes. This is the weekend, adding that |
| 0:58.1 | 23 of Pakistani soldiers were killed, 20 injured. The Pakistani military, Islamabad, added that |
| 1:06.2 | its forces carried out, quote, infrastructural damage to Taliban post, camps, headquarters, and support |
| 1:12.6 | networks. In Kabul, the Afghanistan government claimed that it killed 58 Pakistani soldiers |
| 1:18.6 | in fighting. The Afghan foreign minister, Amir Khan Mutaki, says Kabul, quote, achieved our military |
| 1:27.3 | objectives last night. He goes on to say, the military has, quote, achieved our military objectives last night. |
| 1:29.3 | He goes on to say the military has, quote, pause the fighting from our side for the time being. |
| 1:35.2 | Qatar, Doha, and Saudi Arabia are mentioned as involved expressing deep concern and looking to restrain. |
| 1:43.2 | One more detail. |
| 1:45.6 | Iran said it was ready to assist in easing tensions between the two countries. This is a tinderbox to make it very clear, |
| 1:53.8 | and the dispute between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been going on now and again over the last |
| 1:59.6 | years. This looks like a major incident, so I go to the ambassador, who has been going on now and again over the last years. This looks like a major incident. |
| 2:02.3 | So I go to the ambassador, who has been in Islamabad, who has been in all these decision-making points in Pakistan. |
| 2:11.0 | Mr. Ambassador, this looks like it was unplanned and looks like either retaliation for a perceived wrong or an aggressor, but I can't |
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