Abstract
Pakistan is the most imperative neighbor for peaceful Afghanistan and the relationship between both countries is based on complex national understanding of regional threat perception. The analytical investigation of the Pak-Afghan engagement with respect to Afghan War represents that Pakistan impulsively calculated its strategic objectives under the influence of an urge to make an alliance against Indian hegemony in South Asia. Whereas, New Delhi’s primary target in Kabul was to stop Islamabad in coagulating a mutual block of Taliban that would be important to Pakistan at the time of crisis with India. The risk of prospective military assistance from Taliban to Kashmiri separatists was determined strategically by India. Recently, Indian Consulates in Afghanistan has coherently operated under the influence of infamous Ajit Doval Doctrine, to build an insurgency in Pakistan that focuses primarily on Pakistan's inner disruption by cross-border fighting, civilian targeting and proxy war. New Delhi is lobbying in Washington to enhance its diplomatic influence in Afghanistan and also bilaterally engaging with Afghan government to create favorable circumstances through its intelligence networks. After the U.S. attack on Afghanistan, India has founded a great opportunity to minimize Pakistan's strategically role in Afghanistan. The Taliban may eventually agree to dichotomy of power, but they are uncertain about their rigidly undemocratic leadership attitude. A two-level mode of governance is therefore likely to be included in the potential future political system of Afghanistan.
Highlights
After the ouster of the Taliban regime and subsequent govt: of Hamid Karzai, Pak-Afghan ties followed a downward trajectory as the gaps in mistrust and continuous blame game grew between Islamabad and Kabul6
Afghanistan's challenges have been domestic in nature, such as insecurity and violence, Afghan Taliban insurgency, the growing ethnic divide, a weak economy, rampant illicit drug trade, interflow of refugees and unmonitored cross-border movement of ordinary civilians and militants; these home-grown issues have a direct impact on Pakistan, as has been witnessed over the past decade or so8
Successive Afghan leaders, have made assured that Afghanistan would not indulge in the Indo-Pak rivalry and not allow its territory to be used against Pakistan, ground realties indicate the opposite13
Summary
New Delhi’s primary target in Kabul was to stop Islamabad in coagulating a mutual block of Taliban that would be important to Pakistan at the time of crisis with India. Despite rejecting the allegations, has been accused by India, and by Afghanistan, of backing and funding Taliban against the Afghan government.
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