Though now there is a semblance of truce between Afghanistan and Pakistan, everybody is perhaps certain that it will not last long and sooner than later, fighting will resume. This is because right from the birth of Pakistan on 14th August 1947, there has been a raging border dispute between these two Islamic countries in South Asia.

Last week there was a 48-hour ceasefire between them which now both accuse each other of violating. The officials of respective countries will meet in Doha to find a way forward. Pakistan is busy levelling familiar charges against Pakistan, one of them is accusing Afghanistan of being ‘a proxy of India’. The crux of this charge is that New Delhi and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan [TTP] are in cahoots with each other. Pakistan has not taken kindly to the visit of Taliban foreign minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi to India. On Friday, 17th October Pakistan’s defence minister Khawaja Asif angrily commented that Afghanistan has turned against Pakistan and aligned itself with India...the rulers of Kabul are now sitting in India’s lap’. This was a clear reference to Muttaqi’s India visit.

It should be recalled that but........

© Free Press Journal