{"id":1493642,"date":"2024-10-03T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1493642"},"modified":"2024-10-03T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T11:30:00","slug":"china-iran-pakistan-and-russia-are-increasingly-displeased-with-the-afghan-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/china-iran-pakistan-and-russia-are-increasingly-displeased-with-the-afghan-taliban\/1493642\/","title":{"rendered":"China, Iran, Pakistan, And Russia Are Increasingly Displeased With The Afghan Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"

China, Iran, Pakistan, And Russia Are Increasingly Displeased With The Afghan Taliban<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Chinese, Iranian, Pakistani, and Russian Foreign Ministers gathered for their third quadrilateral meeting on Afghanistan on the sidelines of the UNGA last week. The\u00a0joint statement<\/a>\u00a0that they produced was sharply critical of the Taliban on very sensitive issues, thus showing that they\u2019re becoming increasingly displeased with them. <\/strong>They confirmed that international terrorist groups are still active in Afghanistan despite the Taliban\u2019s claims and called on them to fulfill their obligation to fight them.<\/p>\n

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Those four\u2019s joint statement explicitly said that the Taliban should \u201celiminate all terrorist groups equally and non-discriminatory and prevent the use of Afghan territory against its neighbors, the region, and beyond\u201d, <\/strong>thus implying that it\u2019s only selectively targeting those like ISIS-K which it considers a threat. The innuendo is that some of them like the TTP and BLA, which readers can learn more about\u00a0here<\/a>, are being sheltered by the Taliban and even exploited by them as proxies against Pakistan like Islamabad suspects.<\/p>\n

It’s for this reason why Pakistan\u2019s\u00a0Express Tribune<\/a>, which is one of the country\u2019s most reliable outlets, described the inclusion of that language as a \u201dmajor diplomatic victory\u201d.<\/strong> The other criticisms of the Taliban were comparatively milder and include a call for it to finally assemble the ethno-politically inclusive government that it promised to form a few years back, create the conditions for facilitating the return of refugees from Iran and Pakistan, and reconsider its policy towards women.<\/p>\n

The rest of the document was perfunctory and also predictably blamed NATO for Afghanistan\u2019s plight,<\/strong> but it\u2019s the parts mentioned above that are the most important for observers to pay attention to. What they show is that those four counties\u2019 honeymoon with the Taliban has indisputably ended and they\u2019re no longer shy about drawing attention to its ties with international terrorist groups. <\/strong>They don\u2019t outright accuse it of complicity with them, but a reading between the lines reveals that this is what they think.<\/p>\n

This is significant because it hints that they wouldn\u2019t politically oppose whatever military means Pakistan might ultimately resort to for defending its national security interests from Taliban-backed terrorists. China, Iran, and Russia aren\u2019t anywhere near as directly affected by this ignoble state of affairs as Pakistan is, and each has their respective reasons for not worsening their ties with it in spite of this, with Pakistan being the only one among them that might do something tangible in response.<\/p>\n

China wants Pakistan to improve its domestic security situation in order to protect BRI\u2019s CPEC flagship, Iran doesn\u2019t want Taliban-backed terrorists in Pakistan\u2019s Balochistan spilling over into its half of this transnational region, and Russia wants a stable environment in which to\u00a0possibly ramp up investments<\/a>. <\/strong>The convergence of these three\u2019s interests in this respect inside of Pakistan in spite of their individual ties with the Taliban is why they agreed to so sharply criticize the group in their joint statement.<\/p>\n

Seeing as how neither China, Iran, nor Russia will scale back their ties with the Taliban to pressure it into acting against those anti-Pakistani terrorist groups, which is due to them not wanting to lose out on Afghanistan\u2019s logistics and mineral opportunities, the Taliban has no reason to comply. Their implied lack of political opposition to whatever military means Pakistan might ultimately resort to won\u2019t change the military-strategic dynamics between Kabul and Islamabad.<\/p>\n

Both conflicting parties know this, which is why the latest joint statement should only be seen as a symbolic declaration of their increasing displeasure with the Taliban and not anything more substantive. Pakistan would still carry out cross-border military action if it considered this necessary even if those other three countries didn\u2019t just signal that they wouldn\u2019t oppose it. In any case, they\u2019ll now better understand why it might do so, which suggests that\u00a0such a scenario<\/a>\u00a0might actually be in the cards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 10\/03\/2024 – 03:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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