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Having surrendered before the Taliban to save itself from the militant outfits, Pakistan is much bothered about its neighbour and claims that India is in a “state of mourning” over the turn of events in Afghanistan.
Both Pakistan and China are desperately liaising with the Taliban to protect itself from militant groups. This is the foremost point that both the countries will be raising while giving recognition to the Taliban. While Pakistan will negotiate to ensure Taliban does not support banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) that has posed a biggest challenge to the Imran Khan government, China will seek guarantees from the new Islamic country to remain reluctant on the Uyghur issue.
Instead of keeping its house in order, Pakistan is more concerned about the happenings in India. Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said on Wednesday that India’s discomfort over the turn of events in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover was obvious, and the entire world was a witness to how India was “in a state of mourning”.
Addressing the media in Islamabad, Rashid said the way India was evacuating its citizens from Afghanistan made its defeat evident.
“Defeat is written on their faces,” he said, adding that the credit for India’s “defeat” went to the Pakistani nation and its institutions.
The minister said Pakistan had been paying the price of disorder in Afghanistan for years and wanted peace to be restored there as it realised that “peace in Afghanistan means peace in Pakistan”.
Pakistan is banking on Taliban spokespersons Zabiullah Mujahid and Suhail Shaheen statements, expressing hope that the Taliban would stay true to their word of not letting Afghanistan’s soil be used against any country, including Pakistan.
Pakistan could be hopeful but the TTP terror continued to haunt them. This could be the reason Pakistan’s Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry Tuesday claimed that the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was in a state of “disarray” after Indian funding for the militant outfit had stopped.
“We should be satisfied to know with regards to the TTP that for the first time the process of Indian funding [to them] — which had been going on for a long time — has ended and at this time they are in disarray,” Fawad had said in a press conference.
