Euphoria felt that many people in Pakistan for the Taliban victory in Kabul six months ago subsided. The government hopes that it is friendly – some will say proxy – the regime in Afghanistan will relieve its concerns about Pakistan Taliban.
But on the contrary, there has been a surge in terror attacks in recent months, Pakistani officials said planned by militants hiding in the Afghanistan region.
However, senior civilian officials and senior security remain optimistic about the future, or, at least, emphasizing that stable Afghanistan is very important for stable Pakistan. This is a position that puts Pakistan in a strict angle: The state must continue to help the Taliban government new, while also competing with the increasing security and economic risk of Pakistan which comes with a new regime.
Is there a possibility that if the Taliban government is squeezed, maybe there are changes to the better? Not. “Prime Minister Imran Khan from Pakistan said in an interview with CNN earlier this month.
He stressed that the world finally had to deal with the Taliban because of the lack of a second or better alternative.
So the only alternative we have today is working with them and gives incentives to them for what the world wants: the government is inclusive, human rights and women’s rights in particular,” he added.
So far, however, the government’s efforts to diplomatic recognition of the Afghan Taliban and the call for global financial assistance produced more results. Pakistan itself does not diplomatically recognizing the Afghan Taliban showing the dilemma faced by the country.
Pakistan witnessed a 42% increase in terrorist attacks in 2021 compared to the previous year, according to the Pak Institute of Peace study based in Islamabad, with significant waves after Kabul fell. The report noted that the fall of Kabul had begun to affect the country’s militant landscape and security, by saying change in Afghanistan “did not help in any way Pakistan’s efforts to face militant groups that threaten their security.”
The Institute documents that the Pakistani Taliban, or Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, a forbidden militant group responsible for several worst terrorist attacks in the country, alone responsible for 87 attacks that killed 158 people, increased 84% relative to 2020.
Until the end of 2020, Pakistani Taliban seemed to be far weakened, his leadership was killed or pushed to Afghanistan after the Pakistani military attack in 2014. But along with the takeover of the Taliban Afghanistan, rebellion had returned and used his resurrection to instill fear of Pakistani traders, government officials and law enforcers.
Using telephone numbers began with the Afghan international call code, Pakistan Taliban had called and threatened the prosperous Pakistani trader to pay extortion.
