“Much as Pakistan once found itself torn between the United States and the Afghan Taliban, the Taliban emirate finds itself torn between Pakistan and the ‘Pakistani Taliban’' Opinion | SyedIbrahim1137
The Taliban reconquest of Afghanistan in summer 2021 was widely saluted in Pakistan, where both latent and overt sympathy for the group has existed for a quarter-century. It brought the rare prospect of friendly governments in the two neighbours, a friendliness that seems the more necessary because of their slew of shared economic and political concerns.
Conflict – partly stoked by Afghan ruler Daud Khan’s attempts to build Pashtun irredentism as a political vehicle – occasionally flared up, but more often than not the local actors were less proxies than shrewd actors: for example, the The late Soviet occupation also saw the regime soften its communist stance and, under the leadership of Mohammad Najibullah, attempt to form militias against the mujahideen. These militias operated on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and saw attempts by both Islamabad and the mujahideen to crush them.
Similarly, with bin Laden escaping into Pakistan against an American manhunt, the Taliban’s ouster brought little more coordination: the commanders, including Abdul Qadeer’s nephew Abdul Zahir, who pursued bin Laden squabbled amongst themselves. Abdul Qadeer, who became deputy for Hamid Karzai, was assassinated within a year.By that point, the sweeping American dragnet – heavy-handed and often blatantly ignorant of local dynamics – had alienated much of the region.
Opposition figures like Fazlullah and a number of commanders from the Mahsud clan – Obaidullah Baitullah, Jamshaid Hakeemullah, and others – drew on the subsequent outrage to target the Pakistani state. The TTP fragmented sharply, and a large number, led by Orakzai commander Saeed Khan and including Hakeemullah’s cousin Haji Daud, joined the latest game in town, the self-styled caliphate that had just sprouted in Iraq. Fazlullah himself escaped to eastern Afghanistan, where an American drone strike eventually killed him.
The United States, never slow to mount an airstrike, resorted to bombing the Taliban and Daesh – and interrupting two major Taliban campaigns – before, after the February 2020 Doha Accord, withdrawing to watch the Taliban force finish off Daesh that spring.
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