The thing to remember as Pakistan melts down in anticipation of November 29, 2011 is that this whole fiasco was eminently predictable. How predictable? In December 2020, almost two years ago –.
Pakistan, nominally a U.S. partner in the war, was the Afghan Taliban’s main patron, and sees the Taliban’s victory as its own. But now what does it do with its prize?
The Afghan Taliban are, in large part, a creation of Pakistans intelligence service, the ISI, which through the course of the war nurtured and protected Taliban assets inside Pakistan.