The culture of politeness practiced by Afghanistan under Taliban rule ought to conclude with the thirty-seven report by Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of UN Security Council. It is not a narrative of partial domination of a difficult nation. It is a story of a ruling power that has either acted or remained lax internally such that Afghanistan has become a free terrain to armed factions that have regionalist agendas. The question as to whether militants are on the Afghan soil is not a mere question. The question is whether the de facto authorities have created conditions under which they are able to recruit, train, move, raise funds and prepare operation with minimum fuss. Combined with the sanction’s regime of 1988 and the recent renewal by the Security Council in the form of Resolution 2816, the report appears to be more of warning than an update to the world that the world can no longer afford to play a game of diplomatic chicken and duck. 

This report is not an abstract to Pakistan. It highlights an argument ancient as that there is some relation between the violence of Pakistan and the militant infrastructure, which continues to be on the other side of the border. This is significant because Islamabad is no longer treating the issue as a personal issue with Kabul. The latest war and the fact that over 100,000 people displaced during the war proves how easy the proxy pressure may become the face-to-face........

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