‘Strategic depth has collapsed…’: Expert at SOAS university | Pakistan-Afghanistan Tensions - London: On Pakistan's airstrike on the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul, Burzine Waghmar, Iranian and Pakistan studies expert at the University of London, says, "Pakistan categorically told Beijing last week that there is no point in discussing anything with Kabul since the latter refuses to even meet our basic threshold of demands...Taliban 2.0 is a different kettle of fish from Taliban 1.0, which Pakistan has come to realise very grimly. This Afghanistan is not going to be Pakistan's vassal state or a client state. Pakistan thought it would attain strategic depth, a policy that it has honed over decades, going back actually to the earliest period of the Pakistan Republic from the 1950s onwards. But clearly, it has gone south for them. The entire question of strategic depth has collapsed...For now, it would appear Pakistan believes in riding it out, come what may, the consequences and of course, it knows it is militarily superior to Afghanistan and economically too..." #PakistanAfghanistan #BurzineWaghmar #Taliban2 #Geopolitics #BreakingNews #SouthAsia #Kabul #PakistanPolicy #GlobalPolitics #WarAnalysis #SOAS #Afghanistan #StrategicDepth #Conflict #WorldNews Join ANI's YouTube membership to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtFQDgA8J8_iiwc5-KoAQlg/join Subscribe now and press the bell icon 🔔 to get new video updates: https://bit.ly/2UV4ygi -------------------------------------- ANI is South Asia's leading Multimedia News Agency providing content for every information platform, including TV, Internet, broadband, newspapers, and mobiles. Subscribe now! Enjoy and stay connected with us!! ☛ Subscribe to ANI News YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2UV4ygi ☛ Visit our Official website: https://www.aninews.in/ ☛ Follow ANI: https://twitter.com/ANI ☛ Follow us on Snapchat: https://ift.tt/2BV9mrS ☛ Like us: https://ift.tt/lxne0fU ☛ Email to: anicontent@aniin.com, internetani@aniin.com ☛ Instagram: https://ift.tt/bOs9z0y , https://ift.tt/2AY9xcy ☛ Copyrights © All Rights Reserved ANI Media Pvt Ltd.
