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- Title
PAKISTAN'S FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS AFGHANISTAN SINCE OPERATION FREEDOM SENTINEL: AN OVERVIEW.
- Authors
Khan, Maliha Zeba
- Abstract
This paper discusses Pakistan's foreign policy toward Afghanistan in the wake of the Operation Freedom Sentinel since January 01, 2015. As this work is based in Pakistan-Afghanistan regional security complex and its interplay with other territorial and non-territorial sub-systems, in this article the complex nature of relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been emphasized. Since 1970s Pakistan had adopted rather strong policy towards its neighbour Afghanistan during Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's premiership. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan provided basis to Pakistani leadership for active involvement in Afghanistan which lately caused serious repercussions for Pakistan. Pakistan's foreign policy has gone through various ups and downs during the 1990s, and then the War on Terror changed the course of action with Afghanistan. Afghanistan had been important in Pakistan's foreign policy as 'strategic depth' due to which Pakistan could never be indifferent from Afghanistan's precarious situation of peace, security, and stability in which Pakistan had been playing its role. Even in the post-War on Terror era, Pakistan is trying to broker peace between the stakeholders, Taliban, other militant groups, the government of Afghanistan, and the US. In the absence of peace in Pakistan- Afghanistan security complex, it will not be possible for Pakistan to pursue effective foreign policy in the region.
- Subjects
AFGHANISTAN-Pakistan relations; WAR on Terrorism, 2001-2009; SOVIET occupation of Afghanistan, 1979-1989; TALIBAN; AFGHAN politics &; government, 2001-2021
- Publication
Margalla Papers, 2017, Vol 21, p105
- ISSN
1999-2297
- Publication type
Article