THE recent escalated military tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan is not a positive development in the current global and regional strategic environment.

Any strategic miscalculation on the part of either party will be lethal for both neighbouring Muslim countries. The Afghan Islamic Emirates needs to learn a lesson from the past and make distinction between the friends and foes. Pakistan and its people, despite their meager resources, always extended a helping hand to Afghanistan and its people. During Russian-invasion of Afghanistan, Pakistan was the sole state that helped it and accommodated its leadership and people on its soil for more than four decades. In post 9/11, the American invasion in Afghanistan further posed a challenge to Pakistan and its political and military leadership. Despite such adverse strategic environment Pakistan tried to make efforts for bringing peace and stability in Afghanistan; and after the withdrawal of Allied Forces under America’s auspices, Pakistan was the first country that welcomed Islamic Emirates Afghanistan (IEA). The political and military leadership in Pakistan and the people of Pakistan heralded the change and hoped for normalcy in the decade’s war-torn land and people of Afghanistan.

Contrary to this, IEA has failed to learn from the historical strategic........

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