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2022-11-30 India-Pakistan
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Pakistan's support for Afghan Taliban dwindles amid increasing Durand Line tensions
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[ANI] The honeymoon period between Pakistain and the Afghan Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
is over as Islamabad is facing an emerging security situation in border provinces and an assertive Taliban, which is unwilling to accept any 'one-sided' change in the status quo ante on the Durand Line issue.
Pakistain has been an ardent advocate of engagement with the Afghan Taliban government. In fact, Islamabad celebrated the arrival of Taliban 2.0 on the Kabul scene as a step closer to its goal of 'strategic depth' beyond the Durand Line that divides the two countries, reported policy research group, Poreg.
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Pakistain's support for the Afghan Taliban was most evident in the immediate aftermath of the exit of US-led NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
forces from Kabul last year.
But now, Pakistain is no longer willing to support the Afghan Taliban.
A year down the line, Pakistain has changed its stance. 'Taliban 2.0 is a disappointment', Ambassador Mohammed Sadiq told the latest Moscow Format meeting on Afghanistan while presenting, a damning assessment of its sixteen months in the Kabul saddle, reported Poreg.
According to a dispatch in the Express Tribune, Pakistain daily published from Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
in collaboration with The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, Ambassador Muhammad Sadiq highlighted frustration over the lack of progress on issues ranging from inclusivity to fundamental human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
, and rights of women and counter-terrorism.
These are the issues the Moscow format meeting is concerned about. Repeated border festivities are no less responsible to Pakistain's dismay.
On November 13, an armed man allegedly from the Afghan side opened fire on Pak security personnel at the Chaman/Spin Boldak border crossing - known as 'Friendship Gate' - resulting in the death of one Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and anti-smuggling operations....
soldier and injuring two others.
Consequently, Pakistain closed all business and trade activities at the Chaman border for over a week causing a humanitarian crisis for the Pashtun population living on both sides of the border, reported Voice of Vienna.
After multiple flag meetings between the Taliban and Pak officials, the authorities reopened the border crossing on November 21.
One year after the Taliban's takeover of Kabul, border festivities between Afghanistan and Pakistain have increased manifold with no thaw in sight anytime soon, reported Voice of Vienna.
In another border incident, seven people, including two children, were maimed following alleged "firing from across the Afghan border" in Kharlachi and Borki near the Kurram border.
Ambassador Muhammad Sadiq said that both Islamabad (where the foreign office is located) and Rawalpindi (home to the GHQ) are not happy with Kabul, reported Poreg.
Clearly, the reality is biting for the deep state in Pakistain with the Army's eyes and ears - the Inter-Services Intelligence
...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir...
(ISI) finding that the sinews of control over the Taliban are reducing gradually.
Pakistain may have its reasons for the expression of angst at the Taliban rule but Kabul's actions have reinforced the narrative that Taliban 2.0 is a reincarnation of the first edition that hit the streets in the late 1990s.
Whatever lingering doubts have been set at rest by the latest decree of Taliban supremo Hibatullah Ahkundzada. On 14 Nov, he ordered the strict enforcement of Shariah law across blood-soaked Afghanistan.
This is an open call to public executions, stoning, floggings, and amputation, which will lead to a further deterioration of human rights in the impoverished country, reported Poreg.
The Taliban regime has been making a frontal attack on human rights, says the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
Its forces have arrested women journalists and human rights activist muppets. One such recent arrest was made by barging into a presser held in Dasht-e-Barchi in Kabul, reported Poreg.
Pakistain has come to the conclusion grudgingly that it is finding being distanced by the Taliban. Also, the Taliban is no longer amenable to total control by the ISI.
That is why Special Envoy Sadiq has voiced his country's displeasure at the Taliban - using the platform of the Moscow Format and using the language of the international community, reported Poreg.
The shift in Pakistain's tone and tenor has come after a gentle nudge from the US, which also had smoked out Ayman al-Zawahiri
 ...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra...
, the Egyptian-born terrorist, ideologist, and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda. 
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