Clashes between Pak military and Taliban show that Islamabad’s strategy of nurturing militancy has spectacularly backfired. The AfPak frontier is now an open wound
The recent cross-border clashes between Pakistan and Taliban mark the collapse of one of Islamabad’s longest-held strategic doctrines — the idea of “strategic depth” and Pakistan’s perception that Afghanistan was its backyard. Notwithstanding the ceasefire brokered in Qatar and follow-up talks taking place over the weekend in Türkiye, the fundamentals of the dynamic remain unchanged.