ఆఫ్ఘనిస్ధాన్, పాకిస్ధాన్ దేశాల మధ్య సరిహద్దు, ముఖ్యంగా డ్యురాండ్ లైన్ గా భావించే సరిహద్దు సరిగ్గా గుర్తించలేదు. ఆఫ్ఘనిస్ధాన్, పాకిస్ధాన్ లు పరస్పరం అంగీకరించిన సరిహద్దు రేఖ ఇంకా లేకపోవడమే దానికి కారణం. సరిహద్దులో ఉన్న ప్రాంతాలు ఇరు దేశాల్లో ఏ దేశానికి చెందినవన్న దానిపైన ఏకాభిప్రాయం లేకపోవడం వల్ల సమస్య పరిష్కారానికి నోచుకోక అలానే పడి ఉంది. ఈ ప్రాంతాలు అమెరికాను ముప్పు తిప్పలు పెడుతున్న పష్తూన్ తెగకు చెందిన మిలిటెంట్లకు గట్టి స్ధావరాలుగా ఉండడంతో పాక్, అమెరికాల మధ్య ఉద్రిక్తతలకు కారణమవుతోంది. మిలిటెంట్లను ఏరి వేస్తున్నామని చెబుతూ అమెరికా బలగాలు చేసే దాడుల్లో అనేకమంది గిరిజనులు ప్రతిరోజూ చనిపోతున్నా అమెరికా పట్టించుకోవడం లేదు. దానితో సరిహద్దు ప్రాంతాల ప్రజలు అమెరికా పట్ల ద్వేషంతో ఉంటారు. ఈ ప్రాంతాలను పాకిస్ధాన్ కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం నేరుగా పాలిస్తుంది.
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- A policeman stands guard near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman
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- A resident walks past fuel tankers which were set ablaze in Pindi Gheb, some 122 km (76 miles) east of Pakistani capital Islamabad May 2, 2011. Gunmen attacked and set fire to eight trucks transporting supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province.
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- A soldier briefs the media as he walk through a cave, which the Pakistan Army said was built and used by the Pakistan Taliban, in Sadda a town in Kurram Agency
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- A U.S. Army F-15 fighter jet fires flares after bombing Taliban insurgent positions in eastern Afghanistan Naray district, Kunar province near the border of Pakistan August 27, 2011.
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- A U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Spin Boldak August 28, 2011. The Afghanistan-Pakistan border is porous, long and teems with illegal activity, from the Taliban insurgents who hop back and forth to the enormous amounts of weapons, explosives and narcotics that are smuggled across it. Picture taken August 28, 2011.
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- An Afghan soldier stands guard at the border with Pakistan near Nawapass village, Kunar province, in eastern Afghanistan February 6, 2009.
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- A man stands atop of a truck, carrying supplies for NATO Forces
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- Members of the local Lashka (tribal militia-men), hold their weapons while dancing in a show-of-force in Khar, the main town in Bajaur Agency, located in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the Afghanistan border March 2, 2010.
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- Pakistani soldier Hamed holds a rocket launcher while securing a road in Khar, the main town in Bajaur Agency, located in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the Afghanistan border, March 2, 2010.
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- Pakistani soldier Rasheed holds a rocket launcher while standing in a bunker on a hill in Sadda, a town in Kurram Agency located in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the Afghanistan border July 6, 2010. Eighty per cent of the Kurram tribal region has been cleared of militants and the military operation in the area is still underway, Commandant Colonel Tauseef Akhtar said, Pakistan’s Dawn Newspaper reported.
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- Paramilitary soldiers patrol during an operation near Bara, a town in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border June 29, 2008. Security forces have secured an area in Pakistan’s Khyber region, through which a main supply route passes into Afghanistan, a day after launching an offensive to push back militants threatening Peshawar.
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- Soldiers take part in a patrol in Tora Warai, a town in Kurram Agency, during a military trip organised for media along the Pakistan Afghanistan border, July 10, 2011. The Pakistan Army said on July 4 that it had launched an air and ground offensive against militants in Kurram region on the Afghan border, its first major military operation since the May 2 killing of Osama bin Laden. Picture taken on July 10, 2011.
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- Tribesmen check the torn clothes of a fellow tribesman who was killed in an air strike by U.S. forces in Pina Sooka area of Mohamand agency at the Pakistan-Afghan border June 11, 2008.
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- Trucks, carrying supplies for NATO forces, are seen parked in a compound while awaiting to enter Afghanistan through the Pakistan-Afghan border town of Torkham on October 10, 2010.
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- U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha Company 2nd battalion 27th infantry (The Wolfhounds), Task Force No Fear climb upon arrival to Observation Post Mace from Forward Operating Base Bostick in eastern Afghanistan Naray district, Kunar province near border of Pakistan August 26, 2011.
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- U.S. Army soldiers from Alpha Company 2nd battalion 27th infantry (the Wolfhounds), Task Force NO FEAR rest after their overnight duty at Observation Post Mace in eastern Afghanistan Kunar province near the border with Pakistan early August 29, 2011.
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ఈ ఫొటోలను రాయిటర్స్ వార్తా సంస్ధ అందించింది.
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జాతీయ అంతర్జాతీయ వార్తలు, విశ్లేషణ 