How Pakistan Supported Taliban To Take Over Afghanistan – Hamid Mir

February 11, 2022 Africa Investigative Magazine 0 Comments Explosion, Pakistani demands from afghan-taliban, Taliban-Afghanistan 5 min read

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Pakistani Journalist, Hamid Mir has revealed the role Pakistan played towards the taking over of Afghan by Taliban.

Hamid Mir is a Pakistani journalist, columnist and an author. He was born in Lahore to a journalistic family, Mir initially worked as a journalist with Pakistani newspapers.

On this day, the renowned journalist, Hamid Mir, exposed how Pakistan’s past support for Taliban facilitated Afghan take-over, yet not paying off.

Hear Him; “For years, observers have accused Islamabad of covertly supporting the Taliban. And for years, Pakistan has rejected such allegations, invariably citing its role as a vital U.S. ally throughout the war on terrorism. Yet, Khan himself effectively confirmed what the critics have been saying by openly supporting the Afghan Taliban when it seized power — even though doing so clearly violated the agreement that it had negotiated with the United States in talks in Doha, Qatar.

Did Pakistan achieve their aim by betraying the global trust repose on her? They had wanted a long term benefit from Taliban by giving a back room support to the terrorist organization. Their demands from the Afghan Taliban hit the rocks.

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Continuing, the Pakistani Journalist said; “Khan’s government evidently expected that the Afghan Taliban would do two things in return for Islamabad’s support: surrender Afghan-based insurgents who are fighting inside Pakistan against the Pakistani military and settle a long-running border dispute. So far, neither one is happening. And that explains why Pakistan still hasn’t offered diplomatic recognition to the Taliban government in Kabul.

To further press home her demands, senior personnel in Pakistan advocated for truancy, urging the group to drop their weapons in submission to Pakistani government.

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“Pakistan has been trying to get the Afghan Taliban to cut off its support for the group. After the fall of Kabul, top Pakistani officials expressed a willingness to announce an amnesty for the Taliban if it laid down its arms and agreed to abide by Pakistan’s constitution.

It was gathered that in November 2021, the Taliban agreed to secret talks and announced a one-month cease-fire. When Islamabad started its new round of negotiations with the group, the Journalist noted that the seventh time the Pakistani state had tried talking with the Taliban. Islamabad’s previous six agreements with the group had come to nothing. The Talibans presented a difficult list of conditions.

He said; “Its leaders demanded the release of a long list of prisoners; it’s not clear whether the Pakistani government ever delivered. The Taliban also declared that it wanted to open a political office in a third country (which would amount to a form of recognition for an organization that is banned in Pakistan). Most problematic of all, Taliban negotiators demanded the implementation of Islamic sharia law in Pakistan — which meant they were not ready to accept the current constitution, which is based on democratic principles.

“What the Taliban was demanding, in short, was the self-abolition of the state — a surrender agreement, in effect. Yet government ministers claimed that the Taliban had agreed on a cease-fire. Opposition parties in Parliament demanded that the government reveal details about the talks.

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“A panel of judges publicly grilled Khan over his policy. On December 10, the Taliban ended its cease-fire and resumed attacks against Pakistani forces. The Pakistani military tried to target Taliban leaders in Afghanistan with drones. The Taliban retaliated by attacking police in Islamabad.

“They were sending a message that they were willing to wage guerrilla war in Pakistani cities. The government, which is hard-pressed on other security issues, decided to restart talks. But so far, there are no results. Notably, the Afghan Taliban has shown no willingness to intervene on Pakistan’s behalf. And what about the border?

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“The new Afghan government has shown zero willingness to acknowledge Islamabad’s concerns. The Afghan Taliban has explicitly refused to accept the current border between the two countries, which was drawn by the British empire during colonial days, effectively dividing the Pashtun ethnic group in two.

“Taliban soldiers have even tried to stop Pakistani troops from putting up fencing along the border. The Afghan Taliban has announced plans to build 30 extra outposts to prevent the movement of Pakistani troops along the frontier.

“In short, the Afghan Taliban is now behaving like great liberators who broke the shackles of foreign occupation without help from anyone else. The Afghan Taliban refuses to acknowledge Pakistan’s many years of tacit and not-so-tacit support for the group’s fight. If Pakistani leaders were expecting some sign of gratitude, they’re still waiting.

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“Now, the Taliban is opening channels with India and Iran. It wants official diplomatic recognition for its new state, and it wants other countries to unfreeze Afghan funds that are held in foreign banks — but it also doesn’t want to meet the international community’s conditions.

“It recently had a golden opportunity to earn some goodwill with the international community when it met with Western officials in Oslo for three days last month. But the Taliban blew it. It denied involvement in the disappearance of some female activists — whose families persuasively blame the Taliban.

“The Taliban government in Kabul will have little hope of bolstering its relations with the West until it changes course. But the Taliban isn’t listening to anyone — including Pakistan, which has annoyed many friendly countries by blindly supporting the Taliban over the years. On Sunday, the TTP killed five Pakistani soldiers — and openly accepted responsibility. Pakistanis’ patience is running thin. The question is, how long Islamabad can go on ignoring reality.”

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