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Taliban is a Strategic Tool for Pakistan’s Foreign Policy
[KhaamaPress] After the Partition of India and the creation of Pakistain as an independent state on 14 August 1947, Islamabad military strategists have focused on the idea of strategic depth in Afghanistan: the notion that in any war with India, the defense of Pakistain’s eastern borders (specifically Kashmir...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ) rests on its western boundaries with Afghanistan. This intended developing Afghanistan as an associated land to which Pakistain forces could departure in the occasion of war. The importance of strategic depth reduced in May 1998, when Pakistain created its own nuclear preventive. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... some elements Inter-Services Intelligence Posted by: trailing wife 2020-03-26 |
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