The conflict between Pakistan and Afghan Taliban inevitable: Pak analysts

Islamabad: – Pakistan Internal Security Minister Sheikh Rashid said, ‘Despite the efforts made by Afghan Taliban, the talks between Pakistan and Tehreek-e-Taliban have failed. Therefore, no negotiations are possible with Tehreek in the future and stern action will be taken against this terrorist organisation.’ But while making these claims, Sheikh Rashid has tried to portray that Pakistan’s relations with the Afghan Taliban are excellent. But the Pak analysts said that a conflict between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban is inevitable.

Moreover, the Baloch rebel organisations have started a spate of attacks in Pakistan. It is being claimed that the Baloch rebels have carried out bomb blasts and attacks in certain parts of Balochistan and even the Punjab province. Pakistan’s Internal Security Minister had accused that these rebel organisations do not have such capacity and the Tehreek terrorists have a hand in these saboteur activities. Sheikh Rashid had also claimed that the links of these attacks in Pakistan are in India and Afghanistan. But the Pakistani journalists and media are questioning the government that when the Taliban, which has been brought to power in Afghanistan by Pakistan, is ruling Afghanistan, how can the attacks be plotted there?

Taliban from Afghanistan and Pakistan are two separate entities. It is claimed that the Afghan Taliban are Pakistan’s friends and the Pakistani Taliban are enemies of Pakistan. Therefore, the Taliban supporters in Pakistan claimed that these terror attacks would stop once the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan. But it has been revealed that the Afghan Taliban is assisting the Tehreek terrorists instead of stopping them, making Pakistan more insecure. Moreover, reports are also being received of a conflict between the Taliban and the Pakistan military on the Duran Line.

Considering all this, Pakistani analysts have started accepting that a conflict in the future, with the Afghan Taliban, is inevitable. The Pakistan military and government have realised that going against the Taliban, brought to power by Pakistan, could prove very costly for Pakistan. As in that scenario, the Pakistan military and the government must confess that their policy was a failure. Also, the army of Pakistan, with the country’s economy in shambles, may not have the capability to fight the Afghan Taliban.

Therefore, the Pakistan government is refraining from making any statements against the Afghan Taliban. But the Afghan Taliban have adopted a policy to ignore Pakistan after taking over the reins of Afghanistan. It has delivered a significant jolt to Pakistan and the country has still not recovered from it. But Pakistan does not have any option other than reconciling with the Afghan Taliban and spewing fire against the Tehreek. Internal Security Minister Sheikh Rashid’s statements point to the same thing.