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It's the game plan IMO......In my opinion, Pakistan and Turkey both should have influence in Afghanistan by backing & supporting the Afghan Taliban. If someone thinks that other powers (Russia, Iran, India, KSA) will not interfere in Afghanistan in the future they are wrong. It's a game of strategic interests & influence whether someone likes it or not. Russia will try to have more control over this region as it already has great influence over central Asian countries and she will try to have control over Afghanistan in some way.
On the other side, India had invested much there to destabilize Pakistan via its proxies and she wants to keep engage Pakistan on two fronts. If these countries will successfull in establishing more influence over Afghanistan then it will create issues for Pakistan in any way, whether its geo-strategic or geo-economics interests.
If you see all these regional powers, there are not gonna give up interfering in Afghanistan to have some influence to achive their interests.
In the context of Pakistan, She is apparently distancing herself from internal matters of Afghans and the Civil War currently going on in Afghansistan. But in reality, Pakistan can not distance itself from these matters. Pakistan doesn't have control over the Taliban, there are many factions within the Taliban. If they get power in Afghanistan solely its also not in favor of Pakistan, we can access this from a very recent drama of the Afghan ambassador's daughter kidnap blame and the Taliban's spokesperson was speaking the same language of Ghani's govt, even the Taliban are in no position to ask Pakistan to do something or to dictate Pakistan in any matter. And if they get the power they will be no different than Indian proxies like Ghani.
Now the presence of Turkish troops, in my opinion, is in favor of Pakistan even it will also benefit the USA but I won't go into more details.
I think both countries Pakistan and Turkey have kinda mutual interests, Pakistan wants to expand its trade ties with central Asian countries and for stability in the region, so peace in Afghanistan is inevitable for this purpose. Turkey has cultural and historic relations with central Asian countries and wants less influence of Russia over central asian states which is also in favor of Pakistan.
The Taliban cannot think of ruling Afghanistan without international legitimacy.
The Afghan stalemate
The Taliban cannot think of ruling Afghanistan without international legitimacy.
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