The Taliban’s decision to describe the Wakhan Corridor’s southeastern border as Jammu & Kashmir instead of Gilgit-Baltistan is a clever psychological provocation against Pakistan, albeit one which remains below the threshold of unacceptability and thus couldn’t legitimately justify a kinetic response.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Border and Tribal Affairs posted on X over the weekend that it’s studying the Wakhan Corridor, which is described as bordering both Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) and Pakistan on the south along what was also characterized as the “hypothetical” Durand Line. That ruling Afghan group’s belief that their entire eastern border artificially divided the Pashtun people, more of whom live in Pakistan than in Afghanistan, as part of a typical British divide-and-rule plot, is well known.
What’s novel about the abovementioned ministry’s post though is the Taliban’s recognition of J&K as separate from Pakistan. The part of that former pri...
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