Link: https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-pakistan-airstrikes-open-war-98927b79ee9ef5741bf0804956d3c2e6

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s defense minister early Friday said that his country had run out of “patience” and now considers itself in an “open war” with neighboring Afghanistan after both sides launched strikes following what Islamabad described as an Afghan cross-border attack.

In a post on X, Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif said Pakistan had hoped for peace in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of NATO forces and expected the Taliban to focus on the welfare of the Afghan people and regional stability. Instead, he alleged, the Taliban had turned Afghanistan “into a colony of India,” gathered militants from around the world and begun “exporting terrorism.”

“Our patience has now run out. Now it is open war between us,” he said. There has been no reaction from Afghan government officials to Asif’s comments.

Pakistan has frequently accused neighboring India of backing the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army and the Pakistani Taliban, allegations New Delhi denies.

Both countries share borders with Iran 👀

Sure, because anyone that ever fought in Afghanistan had nothing but a string of successes.

Does the defense minister of Pakistan have the legal authority to declare war?

Can't have a world war without everyone joining in and having a good time

Show this to every "US empire is gonna collapse any second now" person here. There's still a lot of foederati to fight the Empire's wars for it, without yankee soldiers ever lifting a finger

The Afghans seem to have done well.

Not every war is caused by the USA. Pakistan and Afghanistan have had low level conflicts since Pakistani independence.

Afaik the idea isn't that the US empire will fall in five minutes, just that it's showing its decay and doing everything it can to remain the only hegemon

Yeah this new clash just so happened to coincide with the US attack on Iran. Pure coincidence.