The reversal exposes the collapse of Islamabad’s long-standing strategy of using Afghanistan as a buffer against India and highlights its growing loss of control over the very militants it once nurtured.

The recent cross-border airstrikes, refugee expulsions, and retaliatory operations reveal how Pakistan’s decades-long proxy strategy has backfired, leaving the border with Afghanistan volatile and regional stability at risk.

Pakistan uprooted the Taliban with U.S. help in the 2010s. But the insurgency has resurfaced with assistance from the Afghan Taliban.

New Delhi noted that the statement reflects the geographic reality that India and Afghanistan share contiguous borders, including the 106-km border with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

After Pakistan claimed to have captured 19 Afghan border posts, killing many Taliban fighters, Kabul said that 58 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 30 others were injured during an overnight operatio

As it elevates its relationship with India, Afghanistan’s Taliban government is striking a delicate balance in the region.

Pakistan strongly rejects assertions and insinuations by the Interim Afghan Foreign Minister in India to divert attention from the presence of terrorist elements in Afghanistan. By making these baseless assertions, the Taliban regime cannot absolve itself of its responsibilities towards regional peace and stability, it added.

The Taliban government has accused a powerful faction within Pakistan's military of orchestrating a campaign of hostility and misinformation aimed at destabilising Afghanistan and diverting attention from Islamabad's internal chaos.