Pakistan’s Defence Minister, Khawaja Asif, earlier this month, warned that his country’s military is prepared to strike “deep inside Afghanistan”. In ThePrint #SecurityCode, Praveen Swami explains how Pakistan’s strategy to bury ethnic nationalism by massively enhancing the funding for Islamists in Afghanistan has backfired spectacularly.
‘War was the norm between Afghanistan and Pakistan & Asim Munir is bringing it back’
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