You just trying to twist the words, let's be very clear here, Taliban as a movement got nothing to do with Afghan Jihad that was fought against soviet. They were basically madrassas students from Afghanistan and also in Pakistan. Hell, even places which got nothing to do with Pashtun heartlands like karachi were many volunteered to join. How do I know? I seen it firsthand. Few of my friends fought for Taliban 1.0, one of them took daisy cutter, and non was pashtun or fought against Soviets. There were no Taliban at the withdrawal of Soviets. Infact you had the coalition government of the likes of hikmatyaar, masood, rabbani and all which was formed in peshawar. When that experiment failed and all these warlords went against each other, only after that Taliban came about. Its intellectual dishonesty to link them with the Jihad against Soviets.
I hate to say this, I actually predict the current chain of events like 2 years ago when present military regime came to power, on how focus will turn back to west and east will be put in the cold storage. Where is Kashmir? Is anyone even bothered? What going on with IWT? These were supposedly our core issues but people have been sensitised and made numb to them by the military regimes of past and present. Some rag tags in East have been made our top national security issue. Really? Have we gone this low that whole national narrative of security posture will be defined by some cave man wearing sandals? OR , maybe this is all by design!
Throughout the wot 1.0, it was our narrative that TTA and TTP are different entities so much so that rat in East, Modi, famously said that there are no good or bab Talibans. I don't know what the average age of Generali touts here, but this is not in distant past. Have people forgotten about "Quetta shura"? This Mullah Ackunzada, the incumbent cheif, was part of that Quetta shura, do I need to remind you how TTA has been running and controlled from after the demise of Mullah Umer? These are not decades old events, just happened couple of years ago. It's just people pretend to have memory of goldfish in their cultist institutional loyalty, they just ignore elephant in the room.
If we cannot tame the beast that we ourselves created, then its a failure of those who are responsible for it. If you can't fight proxy wars, don't indulge in one. Look at Iran, going through absolute sh!t storm, but all her proxies are still standing firm beside her. Be it in mesopotamia, Eastern Mediterranean or bab el mandeb. We on the other hand, manage to screw up right in our neighbourhood. Do I need to explain this to you in some other way?
