Arab News: Pakistan is wrong about Afghanistan

According to the regional office of Tasnim News Agency, “Arab News” in describing the strained relations between Kabul and Islamabad wrote: Historically, Pakistan’s relations with Afghanistan have never been consistently friendly or consistently hostile, but always with resentment, and these inconsistencies have always been covered by diplomatic etiquette. These opposing orientations cannot be attributed to any particular era or regime, except that in the era before the communist system and the Soviet intervention, we witnessed several long years of intimacy and mutual understanding.

It says: What Pakistan has failed to understand is that Afghans, of all the beliefs they espouse, have never felt comfortable with this country telling them what is good for them or what kind of relationship they should have. should have with them, they are independent people and willing to face any power, big or small, to maintain their relative independence.

The text adds: In addition Therefore, this issue is in the political culture of the Afghan people, who stand hard against foreign powers, and this issue is rooted in their culture. Ethnic divisions in Afghanistan have added much more complexity to the country’s relations with Pakistan. When there were conflicts in the country, some groups sought support from Pakistan, while others opposed and sought support from rival regional powers. The interesting thing is that instability in Afghanistan makes relations with Pakistan and other countries unstable.

Read more: By supporting the Taliban against coalition forces, Pakistan destroyed many bridges in the hope that the Taliban would help in pursuing a policy of “strategic depth”. be their condition. But once again, Pakistan got it wrong, the Taliban are Afghans with the same cultural and geostrategic orientations as any regime in the past. Borders, trade routes and terrorism constitute a structural defect whose correction remains an unattainable dream. They are responsible for the destruction of their government and society, and Pakistan cannot understand this.

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