... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
has urged Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
to help stop hard boyz escape a major military offensive, as jets pounded Taliban hideouts in North
Wazoo tribal region for a third day Tuesday.Sharif asked his Kabul counterpart to seal their mostly non-existent border along a mountainous tribal area where the Mighty Pak Army has deployed troops and tanks in a long-awaited crackdown on murderous Moslems.
The Mighty Pak Army launched the offensive, named Zarb-e-Azb on Sunday, a week after an attack on Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
airport killed dozens and marked the end of a troubled grinding of the peace processor.
Exodus of hard boyz from the area had been a concern ahead of the operation, with residents and officials reporting that the majority of Taliban and imported muscle had fled to eastern Afghanistan.
Pakistain's Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said Sharif had requested Karzai to help stop the flow of people.
"Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called Hamid Karzai last night to request him for the closure of Afghan border to avoid exit of hard boyz to Afghanistan from Pakistain during the military offensive," she told AFP.
"The message was earlier conveyed via military sources and Afghan authorities were also requested for an action against hard boys' sanctuaries in Afghanistan which are being used for attacks inside Pakistain.
"I am not aware about the response of Mr. Karzai to these requests," she added.
Thousands of people have already fled across the border into the Gorbaz district of Afghanistan's Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
, according to provincial government front man Mobarez Mohammad Zadran, and are being provided with food and aid.