Af-Pak impasse
Access to education for girls, protection of women’s rights, and an ethnically inclusive government are nowhere in sight in Afghanistan.
Access to education for girls, protection of women’s rights, and an ethnically inclusive government are nowhere in sight in Afghanistan.
Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions along the border in Afghanistan's western Nimroz Province remain high despite efforts by both sides to defuse the situation.
Following deadly attacks on Pakistani troops, the Pakistani military has launched an operation along the Durand Line near Afghanistan.
A Pakistan delegation led by NSA Yusuf returned to Islamabad on Sunday evening after holding talks with several officials of the Islamic Emirate in a two-day visit.
NSA Yusuf had to cancel his two-day visit as an anti-Pakistan protest was planned at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
The Durand Line forms the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, a 2,670-kilometre (1,660 mi) international land border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Pakistan has always wanted Afghanistan as strategic depth against India
In an inadvertently loaded remark, the Taliban has willy-nilly questioned the sovereign integrity of Pakistan by asking it to stop fencing the Durand Line, as it does not recognise it. Oddly enough, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the Taliban does not dispute the borders with other neighbours like Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran or even China – but counterintuitively so only with its benefactor, Pakistan
