This was all okay if Afghan border was stable today. Terror attacks have increased significantly since that. What Pakistan thought as a master stroke turned out be a duck out. I am not sure why people have difficulty to even understand that. To think Pak PM couldn't get a phone call from US president since then tells you what a master stroke it was. China letting Pakistan to economically suffer like this tells you a different story of how countries got vexed with Pakistans constant begging bowl. Even Afghan Taliban are prodding the Pakistan to get their house in order tells you how bad it is for Pakistan diplomatically. I can't help if choose to stick your head in your *** and ignore everything happening around you.
On the contrary only a blind moron would not understand that their would be INEVITABLE fallout on the western border
The afghans at the end of the day remain afghans and they have been after us for decades and that won't change today, tomorrow or next 100 years,
Our biggest problem is NOT the afghans over the border in Afghanistan,, it's the afghans on our side of the border whose loyalty is to Afghanistan and Kabul and Lar aur bar
The Afghan Republic alongside the Afghan or pashtun nationalists on our side were planning over the last few decades.
The Afghan Republic at no point had eased any of our concerns and if anything had made anti Pakistan statements multiple times , they had conferences and the likes of PTM and NDS politicians went over
The Taliban are a headache but they help us deconstruct the afghans, once again problems will remain but the long term strategic threat dissipates
Even now after repeated pressure, the Taliban are beginning to move TTP families and groups to the North of Afghanistan
Pashtuns is their guiding goal and as long as they keep it in Afghanistan, it's fine
It's understandable that the U.S is going to be "salty" they had to tuck tail and run, they understand China is the main enemy and they need India as a patsy in the region
They want Pakistan to play ball, but allowing India space in the region is intolerable for us
Fundamentally we shoot ourselves in our own foot with the political donkey behaviour
Allowing IK and PTI to continue to elections would have bought stability and a government with a majority and a mandate to bring Change
But that would threaten the establishment, the establishment is not just the military, it's the judiciary, it's the established parties and families, waderas and economic groups etc
So they all got together just to save their own necks
Political instabilities and economic problems go hand in hand and a country that has no finance has little geo strategic clout
Our actions in Afghanistan against multiple enemies was NECESSARY, regardless of the fallout
Our political suicide since is just stupid