yes , India stands no chance, its not as powerful as NATO and doesnt have endless funds either.
We have sufficient funds to prop up a strong militia. The only thing we need is a physical border to give refuge to the fighters and organize logistics.
Since we dont have that, we become secondary players. Iran has a vast physical border, it can and does single handedly support NA.
And Iran itself does not have to worry about funds, with India as a supporter.
as for Iran, they are more concerned about the imminent Invasion from Saudi/ Israeli forces. a the blackops operations from some Middle Eastern and Western countries with the help of Baloch Jundullah are another headache for them. Northern Alliance is not missing them much.
I disagree.
Iran
was concerned about the imminent invasion and a buckling economy. With relief from sanctions and support of international community towards diplomacy, the worst is long gone for them.
Their oil exports are going to surge within the next financial year itself. You will see a much more confident Iran gunning for its interests in the region.
regarding cooperation narrative we have difference of opinion, not only we facilitated in the peace talks but also continued to host the Afghan refugees and the providing the food supplies to the war ravaged country.
Afghan intelligence on the other hand has been caught with its pants down not once but twice by Americans assisting and hosting TTP terrorists.
so Game ON
I disagree again. You are
deliberately ignoring half the story.
You have facilitated peace talks. But the reason why peace talks became necessary. is because Taliban could not be destroyed.
The reason Taliban could not be destroyed despite being hounded out of Afghanistan is because Pakistan gave safe refuge to Taliban in its border areas. That is because your military deemed Taliban as assets.
So today, Pakistan cannot claim rights to being the good guy or a pat-on-the-back in the Afghan imbroglio, because Pakistan
is the reason Taliban survived.
Afghanistan is doing
exactly what Pakistan did. Not stopping or hunting the Taliban running from Pakistan to Afghanistan.
The game is indeed on my friend. But you are suffering from your own military's and governments short sighted policies of using extremist/religious groups to achieve regional goals.
And as long as TTP survives, Pakistan will have trouble where it matters and hurts most - economy.