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Noor Akbari
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“Here's what Pakistan got wrong: they confused a relationship of convenience with a relationship of control.
To understand why, you need to understand something about the Taliban that Pakistan's generals apparently didn't. The Taliban are not a proxy army. They're not a militia looking for a patron. They are a movement forged in the most extreme crucible imaginable — twenty years of war against the most powerful military alliance in human history.
Consider one fact. Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban's supreme leader — the man who today runs Afghanistan — sent his own son to carry out a suicide attack against an Afghan military base in Helmand Province in 2017. His son, Abdur Rahman, died in the attack. Taliban officials say Akhundzada knew about his son's mission and approved it.
Let that sink in. The leader of this movement sacrificed his own child for the cause. This is not a man who took power for money. This is not someone who fought for twenty years because Pakistan asked him to. He did it for God and country. Whatever you think of the Taliban's ideology, you cannot look at that kind of commitment and conclude, "Yes, this is a group that will take orders from Islamabad." - @kite_runner 🇦🇫❤️
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In 2021, Pakistan's spy chief flew to Kabul for "victory coffee." Pakistan had finally won Afghanistan. By 2026, the spy chief was in prison. Pakistan was bombing Kabul. And the Taliban — the group Pakistan spent 50 years building — was at war with them. How do you lose a country by winning it? 👇
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“Within weeks of the Taliban takeover, the cracks appeared. We now know — from a senior aide to Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar — that the friction started before Kabul even fell. In June 2021, at a meeting in Qatar, ISI chief Faiz Hameed asked Baradar to stop Taliban fighters from shooting at Pakistani soldiers who were building a fence along the Durand Line — the disputed border between the two countries. Baradar's response was blunt: the Taliban would answer "in the language of bullets."
The Durand Line is the original wound. Drawn by the British in 1893, the border slices through the heart of Pashtun tribal territory, splitting an ethnic group of roughly fifty million people between two countries. No Afghan government — not the monarchy, not the communists, not the mujahideen, not the US-backed republic, and certainly not the Taliban — has ever recognized it as a legitimate international border. Pakistan assumed that gratitude and shared religious ideology would override this. They were wrong.” - @kite_runner 🇦🇫❤️
Noor Akbari@kite_runner
In 2021, Pakistan's spy chief flew to Kabul for "victory coffee." Pakistan had finally won Afghanistan. By 2026, the spy chief was in prison. Pakistan was bombing Kabul. And the Taliban — the group Pakistan spent 50 years building — was at war with them. How do you lose a country by winning it? 👇
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“But here's what makes the India factor truly dangerous for Pakistan: it's not just clinics and checkbooks. For decades, Pakistan used proxy groups against India — in Kashmir, in Afghanistan, across the region. Pakistan pioneered the art of arming and financing non-state actors to bleed a larger neighbor. India absorbed those attacks for years. Now the tables have turned completely, and India has a ready-made opportunity to return the favor. A Taliban government that is hostile to Pakistan and friendly to Delhi is, from India's perspective, the strategic gift of a generation. India doesn't need to do anything as crude as shipping weapons across the Wakhan Corridor. It just needs to keep deepening economic and diplomatic ties with Kabul, making the Taliban less dependent on any reconciliation with Pakistan. And if the conflict escalates further? India has every incentive — and now every channel — to ensure the Taliban can sustain its resistance. Pakistan spent decades bleeding India through proxies. India can now bleed Pakistan through the very proxy Pakistan created.
The nightmare scenario for Islamabad is not an Indian invasion from the east. It's an India that patiently turns Afghanistan into the western front of a strategic encirclement — achieving through patience and investment what Pakistan couldn't achieve through fifty years of proxy warfare. The hunter has become the hunted.” - @kite_runner 🇦🇫❤️
Noor Akbari@kite_runner
In 2021, Pakistan's spy chief flew to Kabul for "victory coffee." Pakistan had finally won Afghanistan. By 2026, the spy chief was in prison. Pakistan was bombing Kabul. And the Taliban — the group Pakistan spent 50 years building — was at war with them. How do you lose a country by winning it? 👇
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Great read @saadmohseni - textbook lose-lose but your point about economic interdependence making conflict irrational is really the crux of it. Status quo was already a death spiral, this crisis might be the only thing that forces both sides to actually confront it. The Shah’s regional cooperation vision never materialized because there was never enough pain to override the proxy games. Maybe now there finally is.
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Here’s my op-ed, published in today’s Financial Times:
War between Afghanistan and Pakistan has much wider consequences
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@BriefStrategic Purpose built AI was used to adapt my original English article to Pashto, not generic chatgpt.
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@kite_runner Is this Chat GPT article or written by a human?? Does not sound like by human
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پښتانه وايي: "د بل په خاوره خپله کلا نه جوړېږي." د پاکستان د "ستراتیژیک عمق" پنځوس کلنه پروژه مړه شوه. اسلاماباد غوښتل افغانستان له لرې کنټرول کړي، خو اوس یې خپله روزل شوې ډله تر ټولو ستر ګواښ دی. دا د کرښې په دواړو غاړو کې د پښتنو لپاره څه معنی لري؟
بشپړه لیکنه دلته ولولئ 👇
Noor Akbari@kite_runner
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د پنجاب ستراتیژیک روایت: ګمراه کوونکي مواد څوک چمتو کوي؟
د پاکستان د دفاع وزیر وروستی ټویټ، چې د یوه پخواني افغان ډیپلومات ویډیو پکې کارول شوې، ښيي چې څنګه یوه پېښه د روایت جګړې ته اړول کېږي. کله چې په کابل کې د روغتیايي مرکز په څېر لویه غمېزه رامنځته شي، نو ورسره سم بېلابېل تعبیرونه خپرېږي او حقیقت تر سیوري لاندې راځي.
په لومړي پړاو کې، ټولنیزو رسنیو کې ویډیوګانې او څرګندونې خپرېږي چې مسوولیت تر پوښتنې لاندې راولي او شک رامنځته کوي. وروسته، همدغه مواد د سیاسي او رسمي څېرو له خوا تکرارېږي او لا زیات اعتبار مومي.
دا بهیر د هغه پراخ تبلیغاتي ایکوسیستم برخه ده چې د افغان ملي تبارز ضد روایت پیاوړی کوي—یو داسې سیستم چې له څېړنیزو مرکزونو، سوشل میډیا ټرولونو، سفارتي کړیو او ډیپلوماتیکو غږونو جوړ شوی او پکې مرکزي رول لري: پیغامونه تکرارول، مخالف نظرونه کمزوري کول، او عامه ذهنیت بدلول.
په پایله کې، حقیقت مغشوش کېږي او بدیل روایتونه غالب کېږي. له همدې امله، د معلوماتو ارزونه او انتقادي فکر کول حیاتي ارزښت لري.
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In 2021, Pakistan's spy chief flew to Kabul for "victory coffee." Pakistan had finally won Afghanistan.
By 2026, the spy chief was in prison. Pakistan was bombing Kabul. And the Taliban — the group Pakistan spent 50 years building — was at war with them.
How do you lose a country by winning it?
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Noor Akbari@kite_runner
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Who hit the hospital, and how many were killed? @BBCWorld, you can do better — especially after your disastrous coverage of the Gaza genocide.
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
Air strike hit Kabul rehab centre as patients ate dinner, survivor tells BBC bbc.in/476NpDL
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دغه نر ښځئ د پنجاپ جاسوس او د ( اپيسټين زوی) با وجود چې په افغانستان کې د پنجاپ مرتټ پوځ په سلګونه بېګناه انسانان په شهادت ورسول خو دغه خرڅ شوی بيا هم د مرتت پوځ دغه وحشيانه له کړنو دفاع کوي او افغان ملت ګرم بولي.
د خدای لعنت د وي په دا شان انسان، او دا خدای ليدلی چې قواره يې له دې دنيا اوښتې ده.
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Great read from @ObaidullaBaheer. Pakistan is playing a very dangerous game that makes no sense.
Obaidullah Baheer@ObaidullaBaheer
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@Mhalimfidai @saadmohseni If there was one good thing in the previous republic, it was the freedom of speech and access to information that transformed our society, and Tolo was at the forefront of that.
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This is entirely true @saadmohseni
Soviet -Afghan War Samurai 1980@Samurai19801
@Mahsa_Heza Saad also got 2.5 $Million to create Tolo TV from USAID in Kabul in 2004. They lied to US Embassy that their TV will influence Iranian audiences inside Iran part of Psychological Warfare. But in reality his TV weakened Afghan Democracy and freedom and strengthened the Taliban.
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Pakistan bombs madrassa, killing dozens of Afg civilians.
Pak military touts:
Very precision strikes! Civilians were human shields! 200 killed in bases of TTP, ISKP, Khamas! Bin Laden, Abu Bakr Baghdadi and Mullah Omar neutralised! *Adds some Indian dialogue about being fierce*
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Pakistan is cornered — inaction against TTP is bleeding them, but full war is suicide. They can't secure a 2,600km mountain border. They can't fight an asymmetric war in terrain that breaks empires. They can't afford a multi-front conflict while their own house burns.
So they chose a limited strike — just enough to raise the cost of harboring TTP, just enough to drag Afghanistan to a negotiation table.
But Afghanistan holds the real leverage. If this escalates, Pakistan loses its tribal belt entirely — and TTP declares an emirate.
A trapped state lashing out. Nothing more.
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