Archives Pakistan - Page 8 of 22 - New Eastern Outlook

For the past few weeks, tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been flaring over various bilateral and international issues.

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.