Silent Support of Pakistan to Taliban.
How did Pakistan come to support the Taliban ?
When the Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has left ? The country, the proclamation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan by the Taliban was nothing but a certainty.
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How did Pakistan come to support the Taliban ?
When the Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has left ? The country, the proclamation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan by the Taliban was nothing but a certainty.
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If the Biden administration should be seriously blamed for something, then it should not be the rapid American withdrawal without a strategy to succeed the security
vacuum left behind, but rather the way Washington looked in the other direction....
vacuum left behind, but rather the way Washington looked in the other direction....
When Pakistan played a double game for decades, publicly supporting inter-Afghan political reconciliation negotiations, while
hidding its military and intelligence support to the Taliban.
It was always been supporter of Taliban, since it became dumping ground of weapons from USA
hidding its military and intelligence support to the Taliban.
It was always been supporter of Taliban, since it became dumping ground of weapons from USA
Today, it is certain that without such comprehensive support from Islamabad, the Taliban would not have been able to grow militarily on the ground and diplomatically within the Doha negotiations.
Islamabad's backing for such Islamist groups in Afghanistan is not, however, a recent affair, dating back to neither the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1 979, nor their withdrawal in 1989, or the establishment of the first Taliban-led Islamic Emirate in 1996.
Pakistan's underground assistance for Islamist militias began in the 1950s, shortly after the partition of India and the formation of the Pakistani state, in response to
threats to its national security.
threats to its national security.
Afghanistan not fuIly recognized Pakistan's post-coloniaI borders, invaded Pakistani territory in Balochistan and the western parts of the tribal areas, and even encouraged Pashtun nationalism in Pakistan in order to break the state from the inside.
Pakistan reacted in 1973 when it responded militarily as a result of an Afghan modernization program that would have expanded into Pakistani territory.
In 1974, at the urging of then-Pakistani Prime Minister
Zulflkar Ali Bhutto, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI),
Pakistan's intelligence agency, formed a special mission to train Islamist militia groups and place them on Afghan territory
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Zulflkar Ali Bhutto, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI),
Pakistan's intelligence agency, formed a special mission to train Islamist militia groups and place them on Afghan territory
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As part of those mujahideen groups that fought against the Soviets.
The Taliban was one of these groups and the one that stood out the most in the civil war that followed the
Soviet withdrawal.
The Taliban was one of these groups and the one that stood out the most in the civil war that followed the
Soviet withdrawal.
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