Difference between Afghanistan and Iraq-4

Second, they (meaning the Pakhtuns) have special kinship/relations with their fellows Pakhtuns. The Pakhtuns in Pakistan do not differentiate with the Pakhtuns in Afghanistan and they have coming back and forth long before these boundaries between Pakistan and Afghanistan were made. Further there is an intense dislike for the northern people of Afghanistan since they treat them worse than non Muslims. Afghanistan can never be stabilized since Pakistan and India are vying for the influence in that country. Whatever the Pakistani Army is doing and sacrificing so many of its soldiers is just cleaning up what they created in the first place. There are still elements in the Pakistan Army (despite the best efforts of the commanders) that are actively supporting the Taliban and other elements to make sure that when the Western forces leave, they can install their own regime.

But this time, around no western or even the northern people will tolerate the excesses of the Taliban. They have suffered enough and I believe that if they don’t have help from Pakistan, they would have been defeated long ago. To be fair, Pakistan does have a genuine fear of being encircled by India from the east and an unfriendly regime to the west with Iran not so friendly to the west too. To the south it is just water. But the near obsession with the India has completely distorted the vision of the Pakistani leaders, blaming everything on India, Israel and the U.S. and not seeing their own shortcomings