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Pakistan wants the Taliban to do more to crack down on extremist groups and worries they will spread violence into Pakistan. Tensions have risen between the Taliban and Pakistan's military, which has lost several soldiers in attacks close to their mutual border.

Qatar is definitely playing that role now,' said Lisa Curtis, director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security think-tank. 'We (the United States) don't need Pakistan as a conduit to the Taliban. Now that the Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan, and facing an economic and humanitarian crisis due to a lack of money and international isolation, Qatar is arguably their most important foreign partner. Ties between Pakistan's military intelligence agency and the Islamist militant Taliban have loosened in recent years. Here is what the upheaval, which comes as the economy is in deep trouble, means for countries closely involved in Pakistan: and Asian foreign policy experts said that Pakistan's powerful military has traditionally controlled foreign and defence policy, but Khan's sharp public rhetoric had an impact on a number of key relationships.

24, the day the invasion of Ukraine began.Īt the same time, U.S. Since coming to power in 2018, Khan's rhetoric has become more anti-American, and he expressed a desire to move closer to China and, recently, Russia - including talks with President Vladimir Putin on Feb. The nation of more than 220 million people lies between Afghanistan to the west, China to the northeast and India to the east, making it of vital strategic importance.