It appears that evidently the monster is able to chunk the hand that fed it. Propped up by Islamabad as soon as, the Taliban in Afghanistan is now threatening the very territorial integrity of Pakistan.
Deputy International Minister of Taliban Afghanistan, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, has warned Pakistan of a 1971-like Partition that noticed the delivery of Bangladesh.
What’s attention-grabbing is how the Afghan Taliban have snapped at Pakistan, a rustic that hosted their leaders, funded their insurgency and loaned officers to run their tanks and armoured autos.
Taliban minister Stanikzai’s warning got here as Pakistan was driving away Afghans from its territory into Afghanistan. He mentioned the Pashtuns, who stay on either side of the worldwide border, by no means accepted the Durand Line that separates Pakistan and Afghanistan.
“We’ve by no means acknowledged Durand and can by no means recognise it. In the present day, half of Afghanistan is separated and is on the opposite aspect of the Durand Line. Durand is the road which was drawn by the English on the guts of Afghans,” Stanikzai was quoted by Tolo Information as saying at a public assembly on February 16.
“And in the present day, our neighbouring nation deports the refugees in a really merciless method, and they’re being advised to return to their nation,” Stanikzai mentioned.
The Balochistan Submit reported that Sanikzai warned that such atrocities may end in occasions just like the 1971 separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan.
In 2023, Pakistan cracked down on Afghan refugees, demanding that each one undocumented migrants depart the nation by November 1.
This choice left the way forward for an estimated 1.7 million Afghans in Pakistan shrouded in uncertainty and worry.
HOW ‘PROJECT TALIBAN’ IS BACKFIRING ON PAKISTAN
Pakistan has a serious drawback at hand and its issues with the Taliban are solely growing.
“Whether or not they throw out the Afghans or they do not throw out the Afghans, I feel the troubles are going to hit Pakistan no matter what they do,” Sushant Sareen, a senior fellow on the Observer Analysis Basis, mentioned on India In the present day TV on Monday.
“The sort of bloody-mindedness the Military confirmed on this concern of terrorism and the Taliban, they’d this romance with the Taliban. So, they’ve created a scenario that’s now going to backfire on them,” Sushant Sareen mentioned on India First with Gaurav Sawant.
Speaking concerning the warning from the Taliban, Sareen mentioned: “In some methods, it is not a territorial problem of the sort it was in 1970. But when your nation begins falling from inside, if it begins imploding, then what do you do about it?”
Pakistan’s particular envoy to Afghanistan, Asif Durrani, vehemently dismissed the Taliban’s stance on the Durand Line.
“For Pakistan, the matter of the Durand Line is conclusively settled,” Durrani was quoted by Khaama.com as saying.
Pakistan’s International Ministry had earlier referred to as the Taliban’s non-recognition of the Durand Line “egocentric and baseless”.
‘WHAT INTERNATIONAL LAW IS PAKISTAN TALKING ABOUT?’
Stanikzai, the Afghan Taliban minister, mentioned the requirement of visas and passports to journey “to Afghanistan” was not acceptable to Afghans.
Pakistan has at all times insisted on the Durand Line’s legitimacy by worldwide legislation and historic agreements.
Abdul Samad Yaqoob, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief, took the identical line on India In the present day TV.
“If one talks concerning the Durand Line, there’s a global legislation. One should respect the worldwide legislation. There may be a global border,” mentioned Abdul Samad Yaqoob.
Pakistan, nevertheless, hasn’t cared about worldwide borders on any aspect whereas exporting terrorism or whereas offering shelter to most-wanted terrorists.
“What worldwide legislation had been you following whenever you created organizations just like the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammad for use towards India?” mentioned Sushant Sareen on India In the present day TV, pointing to Pakistan’s double requirements.
“What worldwide legislation are you following whenever you give refuge to criminals like Tiger Memon and Dawood Ibrahim in your nation? You might have violated worldwide legislation at each stage,” Sareen added.
TALIBAN TAKING ON A ‘WEAK PAKISTAN’
In 2023, bombings and gun assaults by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) killed practically 1,000 Pakistanis, half of them safety personnel, in keeping with a Voice of America report in January this yr.
The TTP has overrun a number of villages in Chitral, in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa area, and focused navy convoys.
The Voice of America report mentioned that the TTP moved its bases from the Pakistan aspect to Afghanistan after the Taliban gained management of the war-ravaged nation after the US withdrawal in 2019.
Additionally it is attainable that the Taliban is attempting to benefit from a weak Pakistan.
Pakistan’s financial system is ruined, its military, which controls every little thing, is dealing with fashionable anger, and its society is split.
“The fact is that Pakistan is the weakest it has ever been because it got here into existence. In comparison with what it’s proper now, in 1971, it was nonetheless a fairly sturdy nation. It had an issue inside political issues, however its financial system wasn’t on the ropes,” mentioned Sushant Sareen.
Pakistan-based present affairs analyst Arzoo Kazmi, too, believes that even “Afghanistan too is making enjoyable of Pakistan”.
“Pakistan is dealing with this disaster, and no one is feeling ashamed of themselves, everyone is laughing. Even Afghanistan. Afghanistan is so weak. Afghanistan is making enjoyable of us proper now. However we aren’t feeling any sort of embarrassment,” Arzoo Kazmi mentioned on India In the present day TV.
“Wherever there’s Tehrik, Tehrik-e-Insaf, Tehrik-e-Labbaik, Tehrik-e-Taliban all these are made by our Deep State (institution),” Kazmi mentioned.
The reference to TTP, which has change into a nightmare for Pakistan, is unmissable.
The Taliban is the monster that Pakistan fed, and it’s now snarling at it. Able to chunk off the very hand that when nourished it.
