Pak makes strategic shift against Taliban to balance US, China relations ANI | Updated: May 19, 2021 14:50 IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 19 (ANI): In a strategic shift, Islamabad no longer favours a Taliban total victory in Afghanistan as it seeks to balance its US and China relations.
Salman Rafi Sheikh, writing in Asia Times said that Pakistan s security establishment appears to see more geopolitical upside to an inclusive rather than Taliban-dominated Afghan government in Kabul when US troops fully withdraw by September 11.
This marks a distinct flip of Pakistan s previous position in favour of a Taliban total win over Kabul, one that violently ousts Afghan President Ashraf Ghani s government and establishes a new Islamic emirate to the exclusion of non-Taliban and non-Pashtun groups.
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