Re: Pakistan in Afghanistan: Friend or Foe?
@Captain1 - so the net effect of ^ is from YOUR point of view Afghans should be thankful to Pakistan and not get too close to India. Unfortunately for you and fortunately for Afghanistan, while Pakistan can make things more expensive for the Afghans but can’t fully prevent then from getting what they want and what India (or anyother country) is willing/able to provide.
You are suggesting as if India was working with people (awaam) of Afghanistan and not some “war-lords”.
It is blackmail, the game Pakistan tries to play here and that is why I called it immoral. There are two other places where Pakistan played similar blackmail as strategy and it both cases their own tools & techniques came back to bite them - one was against Bengalis where “establishment” did that “it is either my government or none” and went against the will of the majority of Pakistani people - this resulted in Bangladesh. Blackmail was tried in Kashmir as well - either India come to table or we will continue support to terrorists under the name of “mujahiddeen”. This almost succeeded except events out of Afghanistan took over the world stage and you know the result (India got lucky on Kashmir front)!
Sorry the “blackmail” in the current geopolitics is being done by US to Pakistan and not some other ways, we can always agree to disagree. Pak-Beng was different unfortunate story.