The Pakistan Armed Forces have permanently secured and closed off a 32-square-kilometre area of land taken from the Afghan Taliban by erecting a border fence.
After the capture of Gudwana Enclave, comprehensive efforts were directed toward consolidating defences and the installation of a fence.
In another development, renowned Afghan journalist Sami Yousafzai has expressed grave concerns about the current state of affairs in Afghanistan, in a post on X, raising some questions about where the country is headed, and who is in charge.
Yousafzai was likening former Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar to the current leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, saying wonder if Akhundzada is leading Afghanistan to a greater crisis.
At the centre of his message was sobering reflection on the past. He argued that Afghanistan has long been the victim of poor choices and conflicts that could have been avoided — and that any time leaders have opted for confrontation over intelligence, it is the normal people, Afghans, that bear the greatest cost — faced with displacement and poverty and the generational grief they stand in.
The journalist made no mistake in his opinion of what true leadership looks like. In his own words, the real leader is “one who pays closer attention to its people and does not lead them into war, but promotes peace, upholds dignity and builds stability.”
He emphasised that resorting to war is not demonstration of strength and political acumen, but rather a complete failure — one that leaves nothing but suffering and sorrow behind it.
Yousafzai ended his post with optimism, saying the people of Afghanistan have experienced far too much and deserve far better.
His message was clear, that the people of Afghanistan have an inherent right to peace and that right can no longer be denied.
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