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Let's take a closer look at the Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict. While recent clashes are grabbing headlines, understanding the situation requires looking at two distinct but intertwined layers: a modern militant crisis and a deep historical grievance.

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For years, Pakistan's strategic calculus was based on supporting the Afghan Taliban to project influence. With the Taliban in power, that leverage is gone. This has left Islamabad in a strategic bind. Use military and economic coercion against a government it helped create, with little success.

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More fundamentally, there is the issue of the Durand Line. The refusal of any Afghan government to recognize this 1893 colonial-era border is central to Afghan national identity. For the Taliban, formally accepting it would be a catastrophic political concession.

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The result is a fragile state of affairs. The ceasefire addresses the immediate violence but none of the core structural problems. What options does Pakistan have when its military and economic pressure have failed to show results? #geopolitics #foreignpolicy #afghanistan #pakistan #securitystudies