Pakistan appeared on the map of the world in August 1947 and new political boundaries were laid down. Our Eastern neighbor was India and in the west it was Afghanistan the brotherly Muslim state that became our new neighbor. Relations with India have been toxic since day one and after three wars and countless skirmishes we are still in a state of daggers drawn with our eastern neighbor. Afghanistan in the west is a different story with whom we have lived a love hate relationship. After over seven decades of independence we don’t have friendly neighbors but no matter what we do it is not possible to change neighbors we just have to live with them. Relations with Afghanistan have never been so ugly or toxic as we have today. There have been border clashes, air strikes and drone attacks on Afghanistan. Pakistan has accused the Afghan Govt. of the Taliban of supporting and helping the Pakistani Taliban to launch attacks on Pakistan from their sanctuaries in Afghan territory. Afghanistan has vehemently denied these charges and accuses Pakistan of violating the territorial integrity of their country and we are now virtually in a state of war with Afghanistan.

The Taliban regime in Kabul has now completed five years in power in August 2026 and as of today relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan are toxic and practically frozen to a........

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