Pakistan is allegedly facilitating former Afghan soldiers to launch guerrilla attacks against the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, especially Badakhshan.

The main motive is to protect its strategic relevance by preventing China from developing the Wakhan Corridor as an alternative BRI route.

This strategy risks uncontrolled proxy conflict, alienating China and the Taliban, and further regional instability.

The recent uptick in insecurity across northern Afghanistan is not an isolated development, nor is it merely the product of local dynamics. It reflects a deliberate, calculated, and increasingly visible strategy by Pakistan’s security establishment to reshape Afghanistan’s internal balance of power at a moment when Islamabad fears losing strategic relevance in the region.

Reports from northern Afghanistan indicate that armed groups, which entering through Pakistan’s Chitral region have begun mobilizing in Badakhshan with the stated aim of launching guerrilla operations against the Taliban. Taliban officials themselves have acknowledged clashes on July 26 in the country’s south, where former Afghan military personnel allegedly crossed from Pakistan’s Balochistan province and engaged in direct fighting before being repelled. These developments are not random, rather they form part of a broader pattern: Pakistan is once again inserting itself into Afghanistan’s internal conflict landscape, this time not to empower the Taliban, but to pressure them.

Thus, at the heart of Islamabad’s renewed interference lies a single geographic........

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