Tag: Tehreek-i-Taliban

Reimagining India – Afghanistan ties with Taliban at the Helm
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Reimagining India – Afghanistan ties with Taliban at the Helm

India should cautiously move forward with the Taliban, known to be inherently ‘anti-India’, which has shown no signs of improvement that it had guaranteed upon the takeover. The Taliban regime has consistently reiterated the need to resume bilateral relations between the two countries to recommence the halted infrastructural projects, visas to students, health care, etc.The chaotic situation in Kabul, along with the initiation of “foreign fighters” devising attacks on their neighbours reveals the sheer necessity of protecting national security for India. India and Afghanistan have always shared an exceptional rapport dating back to the middle ages. It is no secret that the two countries have shared a rather positive bilateral relationship regardless of the ruling party in India, an...
Tehreek-i-Taliban and Pakistan: Frankenstein monster coming back to haunt its Creator
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Tehreek-i-Taliban and Pakistan: Frankenstein monster coming back to haunt its Creator

As it launches a violent assault on Pakistani land, the TTP intends to impose its rule over that country in a similar way it did in Afghanistan. The most recent clashes reveal the TTP's aspirations to seize control of some portions of Pakistan and set up a rival government in the country's northern region. Analysts have been raising grave concerns about the state of affairs in the nation that has been involved in numerous proxy wars. Pakistan's strategy of pitting one group against another has not worked and is unlikely to do so going forward. As a result of politics between the jihadist groups in the aftermath of the US invasion of Afghanis tan in 2001, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was founded in 2007. TTP asserted affiliations with Al Qaeda and claimed to be an...