Pakistan massively enhanced the funding for Islamists in Afghanistan, hoping to bury ethnic nationalism. That strategy has now backfired spectacularly.
Pakistan failed to understand the fiercely independent psyche of the Afghans and Pashtun nationalism, which has dominated politics in Afghanistan since its emergence in 1747.
Pakistan aimed to convey a message to the West about its counterterrorism efforts and show China that it has control over the CPEC routes. However, both messages fell flat.
This confrontation looks subcontracted—escalation to re-establish Pakistan's indispensability to outside capitals while squeezing Afghanistan back under an old paradigm.
The Wakhan Corridor, located in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, borders PoJK, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and China’s Xinjiang — once linking these regions through the strategic Silk Road.
After strikes, Afghanistan withdrew from a planned tri-nation series with Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Strikes reported hours after Pakistan and Taliban representatives agreed to extend a 48-hour truce.
Pakistan reportedly conducted a series of airstrikes in Afghanistan's southeastern Paktika, breaching ceasefire agreement between the two neighbouring countries.
The Afghan names have become a thorn in their side, since Pakistan now drives the narrative that the Taliban is essentially fighting a proxy war against the country for India.
Pakistan’s foreign office said ceasefire with Afghanistan came into effect ‘with mutual consent’, while Taliban maintained Islamabad ‘requested and insisted’ on it.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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