Pakistan-Afghan Relations | Nuclear power Pakistan is badly trapped between India, Iran and Afghanistan, the country’s existence is in danger! , newsroom

Pakistan will continue to make every possible effort to crush the demand of independent Waziristan by Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (Pakistan Taliban Movement). But the Taliban government in Kabul will not bow to Pakistan’s desire to gain ground in the West as Islamabad finds itself caught between a hostile India, warring Iran and unfriendly Afghans.

Story of Afghanistan and Pakistan

The Taliban seized power for the first time in 1996, after the removal and execution of Dr. Nagibullah, the elected President of Afghanistan. After this, Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI used General Babar to raise the Afghan Taliban in Kandahar. The ominous reason given to justify the creation of the so-called religious force was that with the removal of Dr. Nagibullah’s regime, a kind of anarchy was spreading throughout Afghanistan, and street theft and other crimes were occurring on a large scale. .

To control the deteriorating situation a force based on Afghan-type morality had to be created. The ISI was able to satisfy the Pentagon to field the Taliban. Under that plea, the ISI gained influence in the Afghan resistance forces and increased its influence over political affairs in Afghanistan. From here the story of relations between Afghan Taliban and Pakistan began.

How did the conflict arise between Taliban and America?

In the nearly two-decade-long war between the Taliban and US and NATO forces, Pakistan cleverly played the game of hunt with the hound and run away with the hare. The ISI originally provided material support to the anti-American Taliban through Pakistani terrorist organizations that emerged on Pakistani soil to fight the Indian Army in Jammu and Kashmir and partly to assist the Taliban. Pakistan became a proud fighter for the faith and raised its status among the OIC members.

ISI-Taliban reversal

The ISI-Taliban rapprochement could not last long, mainly because Pakistan wanted territory in the west, which the Afghan Taliban regime, being staunchly patriotic and independent, was not ready to accept.

The main bone of contention between Kabul and Islamabad is the infamous Durand Line, which has never been accepted by all Afghans, but Pakistan wants to enforce it at any cost.

To further escalate the volatile situation along the Pak-Afghan border area, the Pakistani Army launched two military operations against the Pashtuns of the frontier, who formed a de facto resistance force under the name of Tehreek-e Taliban-e Pakistan (Pakistan Taliban Movement). Have done. ) to form an independent Pakhtunkhwa or formerly known as the North West Frontier Agency under British colonial rule.

Who are the Pashtuns?

The Pashtuns (also known as Pashtuns) are ethnic Pashtuns from the Waziristan region bordering both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ethnically, culturally, linguistically and historically, they belong to the same group as the Afghans of that region.

There are no details of his close relations with Afghan Taliban beggars. The success of the Afghan Taliban in ousting US and NATO forces from Afghanistan and establishing its second regime in Kabul encouraged the TTP to intensify and intensify its struggle for an independent Pashtunistan. Pakistan has killed more than 70,000 TTP soldiers and their men in its two military operations in Waziristan. This has intensified TTP’s resistance against Pakistani infiltration in their area of ​​influence.

Pakistan has often accused the Taliban regime of providing safe haven to TTP freedom fighters and has issued repeated warnings. Taliban clearly says that their government does not allow Afghan land to be used against any third country.

As far as TTP is concerned, Kabul has repeatedly said that TTP freedom fighters are its relatives. They have fought shoulder to shoulder with the Taliban against the Americans at a time when Pakistan had pledged its support to the US. Kabul argues that TTP is not a foreign force of any foreign country but is a part of their civil society.

recent fight

Seven Pakistani Army soldiers, including two officers, were killed in a multiple suicide attack by six militants on March 16 at a security check post in the restive tribal district of North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan, the army said. Five soldiers including a Lieutenant Colonel and a Captain were killed. It has been claimed that all the six terrorists who attacked the check post in Mir Ali area have been killed. According to the ISPR statement, after troops foiled an initial infiltration attempt, terrorists rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the post, which was followed by multiple suicide bomb attacks. Two days later, on 18 March, Pakistani airstrikes were carried out in Khost and Paktika provinces bordering Pakistan, according to a Pakistani security and intelligence official.

Media reports said the airstrikes targeted several suspected Pakistani Taliban positions inside neighboring Afghanistan, killing at least eight people and prompting retaliatory fire from the Afghan Taliban.

The Afghan Taliban condemned the attacks as an assault on Afghanistan’s territorial integrity, saying they killed many women and children. The Defense Ministry in Kabul said Afghan forces “targeted Pakistan military positions along the border with heavy weapons” later that day, without giving details.

Chief Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement that a March 18 airstrike killed three women and three children in the Barmal district of Paktika province, while an attack in Khost province killed two other women. “Such attacks are a violation of Afghanistan’s sovereignty and will have dire consequences,” he said.

The Taliban later responded to Pakistan’s attacks. According to reports, at least four civilians in Pakistan were injured in the cross-border shelling, according to the hospital administration in Kurram district. Separately, according to reports, at least three Pakistan army personnel were injured due to Taliban shelling.

Pakistan is surrounded by enemies from all three sides, is the government of the Islamic country in trouble?

Recall, in January, Iran had carried out a massive attack on terrorist bases in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The Sunni terrorist group Jaish al-Adl was targeted in the attack. The attacks were believed to be a retaliation for a previous attack on an Iranian police station. Pakistan launched counter-attacks within 24 hours> Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai sharply criticized the Pakistani airstrikes in Paktika and Khost, considering them a gross violation of the country’s territorial integrity and international norms.

The ups and downs of Afghan-Pakistan relations

Keeping in mind the checkered history of Afghan-Pakistan relations, it has to be remembered that the Taliban in Kabul thinks of Pakistan in the same way as the previous regimes did. Pakistan wants a place in the West because it feels caught between a hostile India and unfriendly Afghans.

Pakistan forgets that Afghanistan has been a completely independent country throughout its long history. If he thinks his wishes will be fulfilled by the Taliban, he is daydreaming.

Pakistani soldiers are badly scared by the sudden attacks of TTP. They will use Afghan territory for security. Kabul will not prevent them from using their bases inside Afghan territory because, during the fighting with the Americans, Pakistan had allowed them to use its territory for hiding.

Pakistan’s air force will continue to bomb settlements inside Afghanistan, and Kabul cannot stop the attacks because it does not have the air force to stop Pakistan’s attacks. The Taliban will use its ground forces to push back Pakistani front-line army or police posts and pressure them to stay away from the Durand Line.

This fighting may remain limited to the border and may not escalate into a full-scale war between the two sides. We do not think that any foreign power would be interested in playing a role in bilateral clashes.

This can be a long process. Both Islamabad and Kabul have good relations with China and can count on Chinese goodwill. However, even if China agreed to intervene, it would not be possible to remove Taliban hostility to the Durand Line from its mind.

India and Pakistan

Who in the world does not know about the enmity between India and Pakistan? In 1948, Pakistani army in the guise of tribals attacked Kashmir. After this, in 1965, Pakistani army attacked the western border of India. In the 1971 war, India liberated East Pakistan and established a new country by the name of Bangladesh. Kargil war took place in 1999 in which Pakistan had to remain silent.

India and Afghanistan

For India, TTP may or may not have any goodwill, but Afghans generally have a good opinion of India. While India provided medical facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, New Delhi also supplied wheat to Afghanistan when it faced grain shortage.

Even during the previous regime, India maintained cordial relations with Afghanistan. Pakistan will have to accept TTP’s demand for independent Waziristan because this is the only real solution to the problem of TTP armed insurgency.

Pakistan’s dispute with Iran also

Iran had launched an air attack on Pakistan in February. Iran had said that it had targeted a terrorist group named Jaish-al-Adl operating from Pakistan. In return, Pakistan launched air strikes in Iranian territory. Many ordinary Iranian citizens were killed in this. After this, Iran again attacked the Pakistani border and killed many terrorists. During this period, diplomatic tension between Pakistan and Iran had also increased significantly.