By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan was posed amongst mighty challenges on the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent inward 1947 wherein Islamic Republic of Pakistan despite its Islamic commonality amongst Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan became interposed as a “Hostile Neighbour” betwixt Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan together with Republic of Republic of India which for centuries had civilizational together with friendly ties. Afghanistan’s geostrategic location on the Western flank of the Indian Subcontinent together with amongst contiguity to Central Asia together with the Middle East endows it amongst geopolitical significance far outweighing its size, population together with resources. Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan inward 2018 is non exclusively a crucial chess-piece inward the global geopolitical chequer-board but has emerged since 1947 as the underlying defining adversarial strategic feature of Pakistan-India relations.
Kashmir consequence is exclusively a fig-leaf for Islamic Republic of Pakistan to live on used as a pressure-point against Republic of Republic of India as utilisation of Pakistan’s geopolitical designing for Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s utility to Islamic Republic of Pakistan figured high inward Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army’s perceptions as geographical infinite affording “Strategic Depth” to Islamic Republic of Pakistan inward its unending armed services confrontation amongst India. But the irony for Islamic Republic of Pakistan is that Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan never extended strategic depth to Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army inward all it’s the armed services conflicts that Islamic Republic of Pakistan generated against Republic of Republic of India inward 1965, 1971 together with 1999.
Yet Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army continues to live on plagued amongst an obsessive strategic mindset that it needs a “Colonial Hold” over Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan to arrive at Strategic Depth against Republic of Republic of India which Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan has denied together with hence far for decades. Towards this end-aim, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army allowed Islamic Republic of Pakistan to live on used before past times the USA against the Former Soviet Union together with shortly the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army is allowing a similar utilisation past times PRC inward its geopolitical confrontation amongst India.
In the intervening catamenia of the 1990s Islamic Republic of Pakistan succeeded inward acquiring a “Colonial Hold” over Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan past times the proxy installation of the Taliban Regime inward Kabul for nearly a decade until displaced past times the USA armed services intervention is 2001 next 9/11.
Pakistan Army-led Taliban Occupation of Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan subjected Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan to a bloody medieval Islamic fundamentalist brutalised suppression of Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan to serve Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army’s strategic obsessions.
The fact that the Pakistan-Army-imposed Taliban Regime entrenched inward Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan for a decade crumbled inward ii weeks or together with hence illustrated ii of import lessons for Islamic Republic of Pakistan together with to a greater extent than significantly for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army. First, that Islam past times itself could non live on gum that could concord Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan to Pakistan. The instant lesson was that inward Afghanistan’s perceptions Islamic Republic of Pakistan amongst its “Colonial ambitions” over Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan as evidenced past times its imposition of a Taliban Regime for a decade could never always play a ‘benign role’ inward Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan to farther Afghanistan’s safety together with stability.
Significantly, these ii lessons are beingness bitterly learnt inward 2018 past times the USA engaged to restore safety together with stability inward Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan since 2001.
More significantly these lessons are as applicable to PRC to recollect together with factor-in inward Chinese moves to choose nearly unopen to course of reconciliation betwixt Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan together with Islamic Republic of Pakistan to serve China’s strategic involvement of protecting the Western Flank of China’s flagship projection inward Pakistan, namely, the PRC Islamic Republic of Pakistan Economic Corridor.
In short, Islamic Republic of Pakistan together with its policy- governing deity, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army is perceived as a “Disruptive Force” engaged inward consistently undermining the safety together with stability of Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan through all foul agency similar the so-called Mujahedeen civil war, the Taliban Regime together with the unending spate of terrorist attacks together with suicide bombings inward Kabul past times Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army’s terrorist affiliates similar theHaqqani Brothers together with and hence whatever to a greater extent than of their ilk. Islamic Republic of Pakistan always since 1947 has failed to generate goodwill I Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan or worked towards generating “TRUST’ inward Afghanistan’s perceptions.
Comparatively, together with inward stark contrast to Afghan perceptions of Pakistan, Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan largely perceives India’s utilisation together with demonstrated tape inward Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan as that of a “Constructive Force” inward Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan consistently engaged inward working towards the safety together with stability of Afghanistan.
India inward Afghanistan’s perceptions figures as the naturally predominant powerfulness of the Indian Subcontinent, non as a ’regional overbearing together with domineering Power’ but a “Benign Power’ working towards the safety together with stability of Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan past times utilisation of “Soft Power” of assisting economical reconstruction, economical assistance, restoration together with creation of Afghanistan’s infrastructure destroyed past times armed services adventurism of Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army together with its terrorist affiliates.
Afghanistan’s novel Parliament Building inward Kabul, the purplish stadium inward Kandahar, dams, band route linking of import cities of Afghanistan, Republic of Republic of India has spent billions of dollars towards this halt dams together with powerfulness projects are living proofs of India’s benign intentions inward Afghanistan.
Historically too, Republic of Republic of India has had practiced friendly ties amongst Afghanistan’s bulk Pashtun people which predate the inception of Pakistan. The NWFP Province predominantly Pashtun held out against joining Islamic Republic of Pakistan until forced past times British pressure.
Similarly, Republic of Republic of India had as practiced relations amongst the non-Pashtun population of Northern together with Central Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan unremarkably referred as the Northern Alliance on whose shoulders the American rode into Kabul to dislodge the Taliban Regime which Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army was unwilling to create so, despite US pressures.
Conscious of Afghanistan’s positive perceptions of Republic of Republic of India together with that today USA has belatedly recognised this reality together with reinforcing US-India geopolitical convergences on Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan has attempted amongst China’s aid to contrive a China-Pakistan-Russia Trilateral to side-line the USA together with Republic of Republic of India on Afghanistan.
Fortunately, the USA has got its ‘hangover’ of the ‘Good Taliban’ together with the ‘Bad Taliban’ a political contrivance foisted on the US inward the Musharraf Years.
Afghanistan’s practiced together with trustworthy relations amongst Republic of Republic of India cannot live on construed past times Islamic Republic of Pakistan as Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan beingness inimical to Pakistan. It is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army which has severely mauled together with brutalised Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan for decades forthwith straight or past times utilisation of its proxies. Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan has non done so; it is the victim of Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army’s armed services adventurism.
In conclusion, i powerfulness as good response the enquiry that plagues the minds of all correct thinking Pakistanis as to what policy changes Islamic Republic of Pakistan tin lavatory create to gain leeway inward Afghanistan? The logical response is that Islamic Republic of Pakistan has to battle for gaining “TRUST” of Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan together with the Afghan people together with desist from pitting obscurantist Jihadi forces on the political stuff of Afghanistan. To arrive at that the foremost affair Islamic Republic of Pakistan has to create is to divest the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army of its concord on Pakistan’s unusual policy on United States, Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan together with Republic of Republic of India specifically. Easier said than done but in that location has to live on a commencement together with that commencement has to live on done past times all right-thinking Pakistanis. ‘Insha Allah’
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