Meet your friendly local Taliban. They are the new landlords of an area just outside Kabul called the Buner District (60 miles from the capital). These highly motivated maniacs plan on ruling Pakistan and their arsenal of nuclear warheads some day and they also plan on taking back Afghanistan. However, India might have other ideas, they are still rather upset over the Mumbai attack by Islamic radicals from Pakistan and probably wouldn’t be pleased if the Taliban were their new neighbors. We’ve been restraining India…one wonders why?
Meanwhile, the U.S. called on Pakistan’s military to fight the Taliban forces who have taken over territory near the capital, as alarmed U.S. officials considered whether an Islamist-backed rival of Pakistan’s president would defend the country more effectively from extremist forces. Full story here.