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Will Pakistan’s image change after it was proven right about Afghanistan?

World will flock to Pakistan when we develop. Pakistan has to use CPEC wisely, safeguard its economic interest rather than giving all golden eggs to china.
Play a leading role in the region to Recognize Taliban govt by Pak, Turkey, Iran, China, RF, and CAS.
Huge energy reserves of CAS desperately looking a way out to the World. Only Pakistan could provide the transit.
Great times are ahead my friends even though Pakistan has squandered many!!

I wrote this just other day...
The lighting speed with which Taliban have captured 18 out of 34 Afghanistan provinces has stunned all.
Within days, Taliban have captured:
Kandahar, Kandahar
Tarinkot, Uruzgan
Pul-e-Alam, Logar
Qallat, Zabul
Sari Pol, Sari Pol,
Sheberghan, Jawzjan
Aybak, Samangan
Taluqan, Takhar
Pul-e-Khumri, Baghlan
Farah, Farah
Zaranj, Nimroz
Faizabad, Bafakhshan,
Ghazni, Ghazni
Feroz Kuh, Ghor
Qala-e-Nau

and cities of Herat and Kunduz.

It is writing on wall that now there is no stopping the Taliban. US preparing to evacuate its sprawling Embassy Complex, embassy staff ordered to destroy sensitive papers, and US considering to relo Embassy to Kabul Airport as reported by CNN, all of that suggests conditions are dire in Afghanistan.

Pakistan can now work to come out of the hole which was it's own making but also the making of others. India and Afghanistan unitedly did all in their power to damage Pakistan with tacit approval from US, and the world establishment.

After the dark period of loosing 80,000 lives, $150 billions in economic losses, Pakistan should play its cards and role more confidently.
Pakistan needs to drawdown on its outward policy of not accepting Taliban rule if they come by force.
Sino- Pakistan alliance should work together to give recognition to Taliban Government if they take Kabul. They have to make sure that atrocities not committed and rights of women and citizens protected. This they should do by engaging openly with Taliban if Kabul falls which is not far from reality.
After conditions normalize in Afghanistan, for which Pakistan, China, Turkey, Russia, and Iran should work together, CPEC can be extended to Turkey and to land locked CAS to build new energy corridors through Afghanistan to Pakistan and China. CAS and Russia can utilize Warm Waters ports of Gwadar and Karachi. India can get its energy from there too through Pakistan if she wants which will give enormous influence to Pakistan over India. India would be net looser if it does not manage its Pakistan phobia and Islamophobia.
Mineral exploration in Afghanistan and Ex FATA will enrich Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China.
US should also become part of it on commercial basis.
India can find a hole of its size it can hide otherwise future does not bode well for the far right extremist country of 1.3 billion people.

Time for Pakistan to march on.
 
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your president just called our prime minister n asked for help about afghanistan situation.you know what is common b/W you n other Turkish member ,may be you are also that one mmm +ccc=xxx
Oh yeah the "Islamic looking children" guy. That guy was such a joke 😂
World will flock to Pakistan when we develop. Pakistan has to use CPEC wisely, safeguard its economic interest rather than giving all golden eggs to china.
Play a leading role in the region to Recognize Taliban govt by Pak, Turkey, Iran, China, RF, and CAS.
Huge energy reserves of CAS desperately looking a way out to the World. Only Pakistan could provide the transit.
Great times are ahead my friends even though Pakistan has squandered many!!

I wrote this just other day...
The importance of not giving everything away to China is of utmost importance.

We need to establish a counter weight to China in our foreign policy calculus and try to develop new avenues of economic development as well.
 
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Will Pakistan’s image change after it was proven right about Afghanistan?

Out of all the foreign stakeholders in the conflict, Pakistan was always the top one

Andrew Korybko
August 16, 2021

The collapse of the Ghani Government and its replacement by an interim administration partially comprised of Taliban representatives shows that Pakistan was right about Afghanistan all along. The only solution was a political one which incorporated a leading role for the Taliban as legitimate stakeholders in that conflict’s outcome. The Ghani Government, propped up by American airpower, wasn’t going to last long once the US pulled out its forces. The former leader was very unpopular in the rural areas and should have seriously considered resigning upon the commencement of the Taliban’s ultimately successful nationwide offensive earlier this summer once they demanded that he step down as a precondition for peace.

In the run-up to these recent dramatic developments, the Taliban completed its evolution from an internationally recognised terrorist group to a government-in-waiting. It cut ties with foreign terrorists as part of the February 2020 peace deal with the US, but even before that, it was already dispatching diplomatic delegates to capitals as far as Beijing and Moscow for peace talks after those Great Powers saw the writing on the wall and realised the wisdom of Islamabad’s consistently proposed solution to the conflict. Washington caught up too late to make much of a difference otherwise it would have pressured Ghani to resign before the US’ retreat turned into the unprecedented embarrassment that it presently is.

Now that Pakistan’s been proven right about Afghanistan, the question naturally becomes one of whether international perceptions about it will shift in a positive direction. No influential forces consider the Taliban to be a terrorist group any longer even if it’s still formally designated as such. The Ghani Government showed what a paper tiger it was all along after collapsing so rapidly in the face of the Taliban’s nationwide advance over the past two weeks, the latter of which was mostly peaceful and carried out through negotiations that usually resulted in large-scale surrenders. Few were willing to die for an unpopular puppet government that was responsible for unnecessarily prolonging the war when it became clear that it was already over long ago.

Out of all the foreign stakeholders in the conflict, Pakistan was always the top one and the party which played the greatest role in advancing its envisioned peaceful solution to the war. Far from being a so-called “isolated, rogue” state like some of its opponents falsely claimed for so long, Pakistan proved itself to be the exact opposite. It was the most important player in the Afghan peace process whose diplomatic services were sought out by the US and its Chinese & Russian rivals, remained committed to the UN Charter’s peaceful goals, and ultimately succeeded in implementing its consistent vision for ending the Afghan War through a political settlement that included a leading role for the Taliban.

Now’s Pakistan’s time to shine, and its supporters should remind the world just how wrong their opponents were about it. The country can make up for decades’ worth of lost time in reshaping international perceptions if it properly takes advantage of this chance. It must confidently articulate its geo-economic vision for the region and the role that post-war Afghanistan is expected to play through PAKAFUZ, which refers to February’s agreement to build a Pakistan-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan railway for connecting Central & South Asia. Additionally, Pakistan should also begin organizing an international conference for redirecting the focus of Afghanistan’s foreign stakeholders from the diplomatic realm to the economic one in order to rebuild the country.

Even if these efforts succeed, they’ll remain incomplete without the soft power infrastructure to sustain them. Despite being one of the world’s few nuclear powers, having one of its most powerful militaries, being one of the most populous countries on the planet, and having seemingly limitless economic potential through CPEC+, Pakistan lacks an international media outlet comparable to Al Jazeera, the BBC, CGTN, CNN, or RT. Its views on everything are filtered through foreign platforms and few ever take the extra step needed to seek out its own ones for clarification. With South Asia more important than ever after the end of the Afghan War and the beginning of trans-regional connectivity initiatives with Central Asia, now’s the time to address this shortcoming.

It’s therefore incumbent upon those with the relevant responsibilities to immediately begin brainstorming solutions to this problem, ideally with input from civil society figures involved in the soft power sphere, members of the think tank community, and foreign experts who are friendly towards Pakistan. This should be considered an urgent priority of national importance otherwise the country risks losing this window of opportunity and the culture of complacency returns whereby Pakistan once again reconciles itself with letting others filter its views on everything. Pakistan will never be taken seriously as a rising power unless it has its own international soft power infrastructure just like its peers do, and now’s the time to finally make progress on this.




WRITTEN BY:
Andrew Korybko
The writer is an American Moscow-based political analyst specialising in the relationship between the US strategy in Afro-Eurasia, China’s One Belt One Road global vision of New Silk Road connectivity, and Hybrid Warfare.
He tweets at @AKORYBKO
The Afghan Taliban are victorious.

It is a dawn of a new world now.

Almost comparable to the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
Oh yeah the "Islamic looking children" guy. That guy was such a joke 😂

The importance of not giving everything away to China is of utmost importance.

We need to establish a counter weight to China in our foreign policy calculus and try to develop new avenues of economic development as well.
Exactly I hope China fills in the void now.
USA and India will now run away now.

I hope Saudi Arabia improves relations with China as well.
 
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Will Pakistan’s image change after it was proven right about Afghanistan?

Out of all the foreign stakeholders in the conflict, Pakistan was always the top one

Andrew Korybko
August 16, 2021

The collapse of the Ghani Government and its replacement by an interim administration partially comprised of Taliban representatives shows that Pakistan was right about Afghanistan all along. The only solution was a political one which incorporated a leading role for the Taliban as legitimate stakeholders in that conflict’s outcome. The Ghani Government, propped up by American airpower, wasn’t going to last long once the US pulled out its forces. The former leader was very unpopular in the rural areas and should have seriously considered resigning upon the commencement of the Taliban’s ultimately successful nationwide offensive earlier this summer once they demanded that he step down as a precondition for peace.

In the run-up to these recent dramatic developments, the Taliban completed its evolution from an internationally recognised terrorist group to a government-in-waiting. It cut ties with foreign terrorists as part of the February 2020 peace deal with the US, but even before that, it was already dispatching diplomatic delegates to capitals as far as Beijing and Moscow for peace talks after those Great Powers saw the writing on the wall and realised the wisdom of Islamabad’s consistently proposed solution to the conflict. Washington caught up too late to make much of a difference otherwise it would have pressured Ghani to resign before the US’ retreat turned into the unprecedented embarrassment that it presently is.

Now that Pakistan’s been proven right about Afghanistan, the question naturally becomes one of whether international perceptions about it will shift in a positive direction. No influential forces consider the Taliban to be a terrorist group any longer even if it’s still formally designated as such. The Ghani Government showed what a paper tiger it was all along after collapsing so rapidly in the face of the Taliban’s nationwide advance over the past two weeks, the latter of which was mostly peaceful and carried out through negotiations that usually resulted in large-scale surrenders. Few were willing to die for an unpopular puppet government that was responsible for unnecessarily prolonging the war when it became clear that it was already over long ago.

Out of all the foreign stakeholders in the conflict, Pakistan was always the top one and the party which played the greatest role in advancing its envisioned peaceful solution to the war. Far from being a so-called “isolated, rogue” state like some of its opponents falsely claimed for so long, Pakistan proved itself to be the exact opposite. It was the most important player in the Afghan peace process whose diplomatic services were sought out by the US and its Chinese & Russian rivals, remained committed to the UN Charter’s peaceful goals, and ultimately succeeded in implementing its consistent vision for ending the Afghan War through a political settlement that included a leading role for the Taliban.

Now’s Pakistan’s time to shine, and its supporters should remind the world just how wrong their opponents were about it. The country can make up for decades’ worth of lost time in reshaping international perceptions if it properly takes advantage of this chance. It must confidently articulate its geo-economic vision for the region and the role that post-war Afghanistan is expected to play through PAKAFUZ, which refers to February’s agreement to build a Pakistan-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan railway for connecting Central & South Asia. Additionally, Pakistan should also begin organizing an international conference for redirecting the focus of Afghanistan’s foreign stakeholders from the diplomatic realm to the economic one in order to rebuild the country.

Even if these efforts succeed, they’ll remain incomplete without the soft power infrastructure to sustain them. Despite being one of the world’s few nuclear powers, having one of its most powerful militaries, being one of the most populous countries on the planet, and having seemingly limitless economic potential through CPEC+, Pakistan lacks an international media outlet comparable to Al Jazeera, the BBC, CGTN, CNN, or RT. Its views on everything are filtered through foreign platforms and few ever take the extra step needed to seek out its own ones for clarification. With South Asia more important than ever after the end of the Afghan War and the beginning of trans-regional connectivity initiatives with Central Asia, now’s the time to address this shortcoming.

It’s therefore incumbent upon those with the relevant responsibilities to immediately begin brainstorming solutions to this problem, ideally with input from civil society figures involved in the soft power sphere, members of the think tank community, and foreign experts who are friendly towards Pakistan. This should be considered an urgent priority of national importance otherwise the country risks losing this window of opportunity and the culture of complacency returns whereby Pakistan once again reconciles itself with letting others filter its views on everything. Pakistan will never be taken seriously as a rising power unless it has its own international soft power infrastructure just like its peers do, and now’s the time to finally make progress on this.




WRITTEN BY:
Andrew Korybko
The writer is an American Moscow-based political analyst specialising in the relationship between the US strategy in Afro-Eurasia, China’s One Belt One Road global vision of New Silk Road connectivity, and Hybrid Warfare.
He tweets at @AKORYBKO




probably more pissed that Pakistan was right. Pakistan made the west and it's teaspon indian look like idiots.
All those allegations came true really. This will further deteriorate whatever image of Pakistan is left currently.


and all Pakistan's allegation also came true, Afgan gov was a puppet whom you made deals with, conducted terrorism using Afgan land etc

so west image and it's teapsoon india will get worse.
Pakistan‘s image is in tatters, I have hardly seen a country being more hated atm everyhwere


Yes i agree... Pakistan srewed the west and India... they are clearly upset.


Every where?..really

Russia ? no

China ? no

UAE ? no

Turkey ? no

Saudi ? no

Iran ?.. no

Malaysia?... no

so please explain every where.
 
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What’s your RAW ID#?

Dear Pak members, it’s damn easy to figure out the Hindutva scums! They are so dirty and smells so foul that they even spoil the cyberspace with their open toilets!! Put them in the ignore list, and eradicate them for the PDF….


may this indian just likes turkish flags?.. as his own flag reminds him of toliet paper.
 
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so if somebody disagrees and is secular, he must be Indian? To be honest, I don‘t care abput the shithole India and they have an even bigger rape problem and a religion that‘s even more backward than Islam. Still, for me there is no difference between people oppressing women andIndians bathing in a toilet called Ganges.


so if somebody disagrees and is secular, he must be Indian? To be honest, I don‘t care abput the shithole India and they have an even bigger rape problem and a religion that‘s even more backward than Islam. Still, for me there is no difference between people oppressing women andIndians bathing in a toilet called Ganges.

OKAY MR Sa'd al-Din Köpek , your views are perfect now go and whisper them in Hulagu Khan's ear .
 
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so if somebody disagrees and is secular, he must be Indian? To be honest, I don‘t care abput the shithole India and they have an even bigger rape problem and a religion that‘s even more backward than Islam. Still, for me there is no difference between people oppressing women andIndians bathing in a toilet called Ganges.
I find it hard to believe you are Turkish. Most Turkish people do not bash Pakistan the way you do.
 
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I find it hard to believe you are Turkish. Most Turkish people do not bash Pakistan the way you do.

The seculars and the ones who consider themselves as Europeans they actually do hate us. The more you go towards Konya the more love you get as a Pakistani.
 
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Well, all those allegations that Pakistan was playing double game (taking money from the US for supposedly assisting them against Taliban, and supporting Taliban at the same time). All those allegations came true really. This will further deteriorate whatever image of Pakistan is left currently.
We all know Indian drink cow pee.. Indian image is there what we can do lol nothing can change.
 
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Pakistan's image was it was supporting Taliban and this will only confirm it. I don't know how it will improve the image.
 
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