Today that rote obsession of unsubstantiated blaming India has crossed all known levels of plausibility and absurdity. It has reached a stage where even their "own" are not just questioning the Pakistani State about their India-fixation, but are also taking on the Pakistani State for persisting with instincts that disallow thinking beyond India when reflecting on the crippling woes that beset their narrative. The most recent act of Pakistan consistently disowning its own acts of commission and omission, is the violent regression in its relations with its own creation, i.e., Taliban, onto Delhi.   

In a surreal accusation, Pakistan suggests that somehow the radicalised, supremacist, and ultra-nativist phenomenon of the Taliban is actually working hand-in-glove with India! Such a baseless accusation is counterintuitive from so many lenses, most importantly from the prism of foundational and ideological facts. It is clearly established that the Taliban are a product of the deliberately incubated force in the religious schools (madrasas), along

the Durand Line in the townships of Pakistan. Historically, they were carefully nurtured, financed, trained, armed, and given safe havens by Pakistan's infamous spy agency, i.e., Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) to its bidding in Afghanistan towards ensuring Islamabad's "Strategic Depth" with a beholden Afghan government.   

However, Pakistan mistook the........

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