Both of you ought to read up on the history of Afghanistan before you (and countless other Indians) come at me with these ill-informed opinions based on preconceived feelings against Pakistan with little prior knowledge of Afghan history, conflicts and politics.
When was the last time the world has let an Islamic militia who is known to use terrorism as a tool, was given a whole country and it's resources?
1996.
What good has the Taliban ever did to Pakistan? Drowning your citizen in opium? You know who is the biggest producer and who is the biggest consumer of Opium. Also, they do good by Pushing people out of Afghanistan to Pakistan as refugees?
Last I remember, opium production plummeted under the Taliban, and since the state of war has returned,
it has skyrocketed since.
Go ahead, Cheer for the Taliban. We all know how that's gonna end when NATO Coalition leaves. At least we're glad that we don't share a border when that happens.
Pakistanis are so afraid of Taliban that they will always want them in power in return of some favor while these savages destroy a civilization. Anyway I dont blame you. Your governments are to be blamed.
Neither of you truly understand the things which you're passing a judgement on.
We had interests in Afghanistan well before the Taliban were created, we were backing the anti-Soviet militias in the 80s, and we backed other militias to overthrow the Najibullah's DRA post-Soviet withdrawal, a regime which bears striking resemblance to the Kabul government, it fell in 1991/2. The Taliban came about in 1994 after the Kandahar student movement. In the interim, there was a civil war. With proxies by regional powers, including our own. The Taliban came in 1994 and won Kabul by 1996, then there was another second civil war between them and the Northern Alliance, the US intervened against the Taliban and placed the NA goons in power by 2001-2002. Essentially, it involved itself in a much longer history of civil war and politics. That's why I said that the Taliban already won 15 years ago, Bonn Agreement and the Loya Jirga(s) of 2001-2003.
Now that the history lesson is over. I will tell you that Pakistan's establishment has believed from the start that the US was making a mistake. We were dragged into the war, by the situation in the North West, and by US pressure. Now that we've expelled militants, it seems Afghanistan is in much worse shape than in 2011.
Pakistanis simply want a few things from Afghanistan. The first is a unity government that reconciles the disaffected Taliban and the related political factions which could be legitimised, but of course neither the US or the Kabul regime wants to share power. We want this so that Afghanistan can be at peace. That means no militancy crossing over to Pakistan, less space for opium trade (this would also depend on other factors), less refugees etc. The second thing we'd like is some sort of understanding and role in Afghanistan, we don't want or could afford Afghanistan to be used by hostile elements to target Pakistan, as has happened long before modern times. As a part of that, we don't want foreign interests such as Indian being given the space to target us via Afghanistan.
These are completely reasonable conditions.
As I've said before, there's only one endgame in Afghanistan. Peace, with all relevant parties forming a government and power sharing. Or perpetual civil war, which will sooner or later see the Kabul government overthrown.
These are the facts, I suggest you don't reply because you feel you have to, or waste any more of my time. Most of this post is just going over history and context which 99% of Indians I've come across aren't aware of, please reserve judgement until you know what you're talking about.
