Pakistan Taliban Shift Focus To Afghanistan -- Asia Times
ISLAMABAD - With the Pakistan Taliban finally holding peace talks with a government in Islamabad that is increasingly seen at odds with the United States in the aftermath of the November 26 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air strike that killed 25 soldiers, Pakistani suicide bombers seem to have shifted the focus of their deadly attacks from their homeland to neighboring Afghanistan.
Afghanistan has seen a sharp increase in suicide bombings in recent months, the latest being the December 6 attack targeting Shi'ite worshippers at a Kabul mosque, killing 56 people.
It was the first major anti-Shi'ite attack in Afghanistan since the fall of the Afghan Taliban a decade ago in 2001. The bombing took place on the concluding day of the Bonn conference on Afghanistan that was boycotted by Pakistan.
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