1) Before the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Pakistani government constantly berated the Afghan government for purportedly sheltering the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, which is responsible for killing tens of thousands of Paksitani civilians and soldiers.
2) The Afghan government wasn't sheltering the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan (TTP), the TTP was sheltering in areas in southern and eastern Afghanistan that were under Afghan Taliban control. The TTP also fought alongside the Afghan Taliban against the Afghan government.
3) Now that Afghanistan is under control of the Taliban, where are the Pakistani government's calls for the Taliban to eliminate safe haven for the TTP? Don't hold your breath.
4) This absurd dynamic of the Pakistani state supporting the Afghan Taliban, which supports the TTP, which threatens the Pakistani state, is part of what my colleague @thomasjoscelyn brilliantly calls "The Wheel of Jihad."
For more on the Wheel of Jihad, see:
https://twitter.com/thomasjoscelyn/status/1413481856436097026
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