Global Watch | A Growing Nightmare For Pakistan: The Collapse Of Its Afghan Strategy

After celebrating the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, Pakistan has become disgruntled with the group and consistently accuses it of acting as a non-state actor

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It is an age-old axiom that in politics, there are no permanent friends, only permanent interests. The tailspin in Pakistan’s influence over the Afghan Taliban substantiates the rationality of this saying. Once considered a protégé of Islamabad—and of Pakistan’s military establishment in particular—the Afghan Taliban have become a horrible nightmare that many in Pakistan wish the country’s ruling elite had never dreamt of.

The Afghan Taliban have become a nationalist force that deems Afghanistan’s sovereignty and security as supreme. Pakistan has consistently claimed that the Afghan Taliban have either undertaken or facilitated anti-Pakistan activities from Afghan soil, and it has struck various targets inside Afghanistan. Conversely, the Afghan Taliban have maintained that the upsurge of terror attacks inside Pakistan is the latter’s internal matter and that Kabul should not be blamed for it.

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In their latest warning after a Pakistani strike killed four Afghans by hitting the southern and eastern Afghan provinces of Kandahar, Paktika, and Khost in September, the Afghan Taliban warned Islamabad that “[t]hese shameless acts of aggression and attacks by the Pakistani military regime will be met with an appropriate response". The strikes didn’t stop; Pakistan struck again on November 3 in Paktika, killing at least one civilian. Pakistani officials have reiterated that such strikes will continue unless the Afghan Taliban stops its alleged support........

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