On Peace
On Peace
U.S. Institute of Peace
Asfandyar Mir on the Pakistani Taliban and Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Tensions
8 minutes Posted Feb 15, 2022 at 10:45 pm.
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As Pakistani leaders quarrel with the neighboring Afghan Taliban over the demarcation of their shared border, USIP’s Asfandyar Mir says Pakistan’s own Taliban insurgency has “been boosted by the example of the Afghan Taliban … if things continue to escalate over the medium term, things become very difficult for Pakistan.”