This week's Gandhara Briefing brings you insights into the IS-K's ambitions to instigate a regional war against the Afghan Taliban, Pakistan's efforts to revive peace talks with the TTP, and why prohibitive marriage costs prevent some Afghan men from getting married.
Islamic State-Khorasan is provoking tensions between the Taliban and Afghanistan's weary neighbors by reportedly launching rocket attacks on Central Asian countries from Afghan soil and using fugitive militants to stir up trouble for the hard-line Islamists’ internationally isolated government.