The case of armed fighters entering Afghanistan into Pakistan, which is reported by social media video and repeated by the official press statement, should not be regarded as a normal case in border-management. They refer to strategic paradox of the region that according to the de facto government of Afghanistan, their country is never a militant haven as cross-border bloodshed organized, funded and executed on top of the Afghan soil is still defined by Pakistan and global observers. Naturally, it is not unexpected that the result will be predictable, if no militant pipelines are destroyed, the region will be in the rut of attack, retaliation, denial, and increasing mistrust.

FOK, also referred to as Fitna al-Khawarij, is a statal name of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and is officially the lexicon of Pakistan. The diplomatic expression of the country has continuously defined the issue not as a problem of solitary non-state actors, comparable to an ecosystem of facilitation, training, movement, financing, and permissive refuge that allegedly links the operation of the Afghanistan Taliban with the operation of FAK/TTP. Whether all as per the story of Islamabad or not, the strategic messages are there, Pakistan is feeling that the threat is planned, continuing and empowered across the border and not just fuelled by what is happening inside Pakistan.

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