The Pakistan-Taliban Divorce Gets Messy | by Shashi Tharoor - Project Syndicate

The Pakistan-Taliban Divorce Gets Messy

By Shashi Tharoor - Project Syndicate | May 5, 2025Pakistan spent decades nurturing, sheltering, arming, training, and financing the Taliban, which it viewed as a convenient instrument for exerting control over Afghanistan and achieving “strategic depth” against India. But as Dr. Frankenstein discovered, you cannot always control the monsters you create. NEW DELHI – The statement issued by Afghanistan’s Taliban government denouncing the recent t…

The Pakistan-Taliban Divorce Gets Messy | by Shashi Tharoor - Project Syndicate

Pakistan spent decades nurturing, sheltering, arming, training, and financing the Taliban, which it viewed as a convenient instrument for exerting control over Afghanistan and achieving “strategic depth” against India. But as Dr. Frankenstein discovered, you cannot always control the monsters you create.

Afghanistan is Pakistan's Strategic Quigmire, Says Shashi Tharoor - Khaama Press

Former UN official Shashi Tharoor says Pakistan’s influence over the Taliban has sharply declined, turning Afghanistan into a strategic quagmire. Shashi Tharoor, former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, has remarked on the declining influence Pakistan holds over the Taliban, a shift that has led to increasing tensions between the two entities. In his recent article published by Project Syndicate on May 5th, Tharoor, a member of Ind…

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