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Talha Ahmad
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Why Pakistan Opted for escalation instead of dialogue with the Taliban? To understand the current escalation between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban, it is important not to view recent developments in isolation. The roots of this crisis lie in the Post U.S. withdrawal and the strategic miscalculations that followed. Pakistan has made several policy mistakes regarding Afghanistan over the years. However, after the U.S. withdrawal in 2021, the government of Imran Khan with all sincerity directly engaged with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) in an effort to permanently end regional violence, particularly by addressing the threat posed by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other armed factions. The underlying calculation in Islamabad was straightforward: now that the Taliban had transitioned from a insurgent movement to a governing authority, they would adopt a more pragmatic and state centric approach. Pakistan believed that through diplomatic engagement, economic cooperation, and political outreach along with limited leverage through religious and political networks it could persuade the Taliban that the benefits of peace, (Disengagement from the TTP), would outweigh the costs of continued instability (War via TTP). Contrary to popular belief, Pakistan did not primarily demand that the Taliban hand over TTP leaders. Instead, Islamabad presented three options: 1. IEA would ensure that Afghan soil was not used for attacks against Pakistan. TTP camps would be relocated away from the Pakistani border, potentially to western Afghanistan, with Pakistan even offering financial assistance for the transition. 2. TTP would enter a process of political reintegration and eventual resettlement back into Pakistan under a negotiated framework. 3. The Taliban would jointly confront both the TTP and ISKP, with Pakistan providing extensive military cooperation, including possible air support. The Taliban agreed in principle not to allow Afghan territory to be used against Pakistan. In good faith, Pakistan released several TTP commanders and permitted hundreds of fighters to resettle in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. However, rather than subsiding, attacks escalated in both scale and intensity. Islamabad’s overtures for peace were widely interpreted as weakness and Strategic paralysis. Even after the first collapse, the policy of dialogue and diplomacy initiated under IK was continued by successor governments (PDM, PML-N), under whom several dialogue initiatives were pursued, led by Mufti-Taqi Usmani and MFR, both of whom met with the highest command of the Taliban to convey the same message. Again Taliban assured that their soil would not be used. In Kabul, a sense of strategic victory appeared to overshadow considerations of regional integration and long term stability. Many within Taliban leadership believed that just as they had outlasted a superpower through attrition, similar tactics could pressure Pakistan, particularly in the tribal areas. For their part, TTP negotiators have maintained a single core demand: the withdrawal of Pakistani security forces from the former tribal areas. A De-facto handing over of areas to them on the lines of the Doha Agreement, which isn't going to happen. Rather than curbing militancy, various factions consolidated under a centralized TTP command structure. Since 2021, Pakistan has faced a sustained low intensity attrition campaign that has claimed over 4,000 lives, including women and children. Then there is the fusion between IEA and TTP, even if it isn't at the operational level, it is clearly at the tactical level, which is evident from Afghan fighters, including special forces elements, carrying out attacks in Pakistan. Infact even the son of the sitting Deputy governor of the Taliban was killed during an attack in Pakistan. This notion that Pakistan is fighting to pursue US interests or is the aggressor is wrong and misleading as it overlooks the persistent pattern of cross-border attacks over the past four years. Multiple UN assessments, as well as public statements by regional actors such as China and Russia, have expressed concern about foreign militant groups operating from Afghan territory. From Islamabad’s perspective, this is no longer a matter of diplomacy alone but one of national security and state survival. Pakistan appears unwilling to endure a prolonged war of attrition and is instead signaling that it will respond on terms of its own choosing. For now, the situation remains fluid.
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The Chabad rabbi killed in the Bondi Beach, Australia terror attack has a documented history mocking Palestinian people as racially inferior, calling them “Amalek” and dismissing the documented horrors in Gaza as “AI”
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Rabbi Eli Schlanger@SchlangerEli

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Zayyan
Zayyan@MCIAZayyan·
I’ll tell you why I lost all goodwill towards India. For years, Indians abroad sold the image of the model engineer or doctor, leveraging better export of human resources than Pakistan, while grossly demonising Pakistanis and Muslims as inferior, stupid, or dangerous. This wasn’t an occasional bias, it was a decades-long narrative with concerted efforts. You can even see how they pretend to be pro-West handles on X, spewing absolutely vile propaganda against others. Now the tables have turned. Many in the West are openly hostile towards Indians. On an individual level, I oppose racism, aggression, and bullying of any group. But collectively, they went out of their way to create the very conditions they face now, all to marginalise others, especially Pakistanis and Muslims. That alone should have been enough for self-reflection, but instead there was constant gaslighting, no need to show evidence, and the expectation they could strike inside Pakistan whenever anything happened in India. By the way, what proof have they still shown anyone about Pahalgam? Both countries have waged proxy wars, yet India tried to normalise this one-way dynamic of attacking Pakistan after terrorism, arrogantly assuming military superiority. This illusion was fuelled by their own propaganda, painting India as a superpower and Pakistan as a failed state. So when Indian “analysts” openly said Pakistan’s society should be harmed, meaning civilians killed, and believed it could be done without consequence, it crossed a line. It showed me this violent sentiment is more normalised than they pretend, and it's far more on their side than Pakistan's. The 2025 conflict proved how wrong they were. There's a reason why Indian politics centres around Pakistan, and why they are the ones who attacked Pakistan, and lost, not that other way around. For years, in my own limited capacity, I promoted rational engagement between the two countries to direct Pakistan towards dealing with extremism and terrorism, especially linked to Afghanistan and Iran (lesser known threats). I argued Pakistan could handle the India threat, and it did. But when India launched those attacks and was humiliated in the aftermath, it was hard to feel anything but satisfaction, especially as my analysis was proven correct. On top of that, India portrayed itself positively to the West while smearing Pakistan, yet offered nothing in return on major global issues, not on Ukraine, not against China. They have extracted benefits from all sides while showing no loyalty to any. Donald Trump has seen through this scam. I'm glad, and I hope the US won't be the only country in the West to see how India undermines our interests with scam after scam. We (my colleagues and I) warned them repeatedly not to make stupid military moves against Pakistan. We even worked to promote peaceful ties. The result was that they blocked my account, my colleagues’ accounts, and many other rational voices. Now they are in a Bollywood-style propaganda spiral, trying to justify their mistakes while figuring out how much punishment they are taking from the West and how much more is to come. We also warned them this was coming for over a year, just as we warned them Pakistan would defeat them in the next conflict. They did not listen, and they are now the only ones in their own echo chamber. Funny, as they went outta their way to push the "Pakistan will be isolated" bs. They thought they were too big to fail. They were not. They are nowhere near what they thought they were, not militarily, not economically, and not geopolitically. If they do not learn a lesson now, they never will.
Muhammad Hassaan@CosmicPakistani

@MCIAZayyan Don't say that Zayyan next thing you know they'll think you're trying to defame them😭

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netenyahu: does it not say in our most holy texts, that we must kill them, drink their blood, and rape their children? this is what we must do! ayatollah khamenei: a good way to #spice up any meal is by adding chilli .
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I’m trying to be a better person but man this guy is one of the ugliest people I’ve seen in my life. What a gremlin
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