PAKISTAN’S troubled relationship with Afghanistan now forms the centre of its security crisis. The International Crisis Group notes the irony that Pakistan has been the country most affected by the Taliban’s return to power.

What once looked like a manageable neighbour has become the source of growing instability along our western border. The problem is not a lack of engagement. Pakistan invested early in contact with the Taliban, hoping that dialogue and familiarity would translate into restraint. That expectation has not been met.

The Afghan Taliban have failed to curb the banned TTP operating on their soil, whose attacks have martyred hundreds of Pakistani soldiers and........

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