[🇦🇫] Pakistan watches with caution as old ally Taliban gets closer to India

[Dogun18]

Date of Event: Jan 13, 2025 Source : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/13/pakistan-watches-with-caution-as-old-ally-taliban-gets-closer-to-india

Islamabad, Pakistan – When the Taliban took over Kabul in August 2021, then-Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan famously said the Afghan group had “broken the shackles of slavery” as they returned to power for the first time since 2001.

Taliban’s ascension was seen as a boost to the regional influence of Pakistan, long regarded as the patron of the Afghan group in pursuit of “strategic depth” for Islamabad.

This doctrine reflected Pakistan’s military interest in maintaining a strategic hold over Afghanistan through the Taliban and using it as leverage against India, its traditional adversary.

Three years later, that calculation appears to have flopped, instead leaving Pakistan’s officials fuming at ties with Kabul even as the Taliban edges closer to an unlikely partner: India.

India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai last week, marking the highest-profile public engagement between New Delhi and the Taliban. That meeting followed a series of steps taken by both sides that suggest a dramatic break from a quarter century of animus and distrust rooted in Pakistan’s support of the Taliban.

 

[Lulldapull]

Yeah........a sombre sigh from us is all we can say about Afghanistan. Total waste of our time and resources. And Iran don't wanna touch em either because they are basically hateful ethnic fascists.

 

[Guru Dutt]

Pakistan started making trouble in Afghanistan way back after supporting these crazy Tribal mullahs against the liberal and western progressive regimes that were ruling afghanistan in mid 1970s so to get STRATEGIC DEAPTH against India in Future WAR after humiliating defete in 1971 WAR

now even Saudies& its allies like UAE, Bahrain , Quatar & Kuwait did not wanted Central Asian Crude and Irani or Iraqi crude to be sold in indiaernation markets hence they found it intersteing prospect to fund insurgency in afghanistan to control central asia and iran collectivelly

whileWar funded by OIL Rich Arab Nations it was great money making prospect for corrupt pakistani Civil & jeudicarry related beurocracy and its Military and political elite

and for that they sold DEOBANDI & WAHABBI ISLAM to Pakhtoons & Punjabies so they could reject there more accomudating Tribal Pkhtoonwalli code and sufi islam of punjab and result of the same after almost 50 years and two genrations in highly intoxicated and confused and intollerrent genrations who niether know about there past nor have any future plan and only think Jihad and Shaaddat & akhtrat is the only reason for a true muslim and for that they have made there nation and Afghanistan hell

so now Afghans blame Pakistanies and specially Punjabi pakistanies and PAK FAUJ for the current situation in Afghanistan even though pakistan first made an enemy in USSSR/Russia and then USA & NATO nations for same Tallibunnies who are hell bent to wipe off pakistanies from face off the earth

MIYA KI JUTTI MIYA KE SIR

NA TU KARWAA/Democracy& devlopment in Pakistan HI MILLA NA WASAL E SANAM/Ummah ki Thekkdaarri NA IDHAR/Indian sub continent KE RAHE NA UDHAR/US or Russia-China camp KE AL BHIKARISTANI ..... 😉 😛

 

[Sharma Ji]

caution or trepidation ?

Hindi - Afghani bhai bhai !

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Taliban had repeatedly said that they don't consider India and enemy even when India was helping Northern alliance government. Pakistan though that they use Taliban for their geopolitical interest but infact, Taliban used them till US was on Afghanistan soil. Soon as US left Afghanistan and Taliban came to power, they started settling the score with US.

 

[steppeWolff]

Taliban had repeatedly said that they don't consider India and enemy

Yes please. Keep believing that 😆