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Pakistan bombs Kabul: Why are Afghanistan and Pakistan fighting | Al Jazeera
Source: Al Jazeera | 27 February 2026
Afghanistan is unlikely to take action against armed groups, however, analysts say. “The Afghan Taliban appear unwilling to seriously crack down on the TTP, partly due to prior affinities between the two groups but also out of fear of TTP militants defecting to its main rival, the Islamic State Khorasan Province,” Pearl Pandya, South Asia senior analyst at the US-based Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED), an independent, impartial conflict monitor, told Al Jazeera.
Pandya added that a serious escalation is “inevitable” if the Taliban in Afghanistan do not crack down on the TTP.
