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The war brewing along the Pakistan–Afghanistan border is not just about militants or misplaced fences. It is a reckoning showing the collapse of Pakistan’s decades-old illusion that Kabul could be controlled, that jihad could be managed, and that alliances in South Asia were still predictable.

Pak-Afghan ties have hit a new low as tensions escalate in Islamabad over the Taliban government’s lack of response to its longstanding security concerns over cross-border terrorism.

Despite the US launching the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCPT) in 2005 to fight terrorism in the Sahel, terrorism in this region rose from contributing 1% (2007) to 50% (2023) of global terrorist-related fatalities, attesting to the total failure of the Washington-led top-down approach.