{"id":7203,"date":"2024-04-01T18:52:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T18:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2024-04-01T18:53:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T18:53:11","slug":"an-uneasy-limbo-for-us-pakistan-relations-amidst-the-withdrawal-from-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=7203","title":{"rendered":"An uneasy limbo for US-Pakistan relations amidst the withdrawal from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7203\" class=\"elementor elementor-7203\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8e6be58 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8e6be58\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5ce2baa\" data-id=\"5ce2baa\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f4747ed elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f4747ed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Author<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/experts\/madiha-afzal\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Madiha Afzal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>Affiliation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/experts\/madiha-afzal\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Center for Economic Research in Pakistan<\/span><\/a><\/p><p><b>Organization<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\/<\/span><b>Publisher<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Brookings Institute\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>Date<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\/<\/span><b>Place<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: August 6, 2021\/USA<\/span><\/p><p><b>Type of Literature<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Article\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>Word Count<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 1540<\/span><\/p><p><b>Link<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/order-from-chaos\/2021\/08\/06\/an-uneasy-limbo-for-us-pakistan-relations-amidst-the-withdrawal-from-afghanistan\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/order-from-chaos\/2021\/08\/06\/an-uneasy-limbo-for-us-pakistan-relations-amidst-the-withdrawal-from-afghanistan\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>Keywords<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">US, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Taliban<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><b>Brief:\u00a0<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The author evaluates the contemporary developments happening in the South Asian landscape as a follow-up to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The US has evacuated approximately forty thousand American and Afghan nationals from Kabul Airport since August 15, 2021. The Taliban\u2019s 313 Badri Battalion is controlling all important installations and peripheries of Kabul International Airport whereas the US and Allied Forces are managing security parameters of the runway and the airport building. Meanwhile, the Taliban is pacing up the formation of a new government while appointing key Taliban leaders to important posts. The history of US-Pakistan relations from the perspective of Afghanistan is volatile, with trust issues and doubts on credibility from both sides. Islamabad unconditionally supported the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 while providing both land and air routes for the US and NATO supplies. Furthermore, the US kept asking Pakistan\u2019s administration to \u201cdo more\u201d in facilitating intelligence-based operations in Afghanistan and for Pakistan to hunt down Al-Qaeda\u2019s leadership. After the initiation of peace talks in Doha, Qatar, the US compelled Pakistan to push the Taliban for negotiations. The US administration still assumes that Pakistan has a grip over the Afghan Taliban, but the reality is something else. The Taliban\u2019s new ranks have suffered twenty years of war, living in difficult terrain away from their families. They consider the US\u2019 withdrawal as their success, and that one cannot impose conditions on the successor. US-Pakistan relations will become more complicated in the near future due to the refusal of providing airbases to US forces and Islamabad\u2019s adopting a neutral stance on Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>By: Muhammad Taimoor Bin Tanveer, CIGA Senior Research Associate<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Madiha Afzal\u00a0 Affiliation: Center for Economic Research in Pakistan Organization\/Publisher: Brookings Institute\u00a0 Date\/Place: August 6, 2021\/USA Type of Literature: Article\u00a0 Word Count: 1540 Link: https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/order-from-chaos\/2021\/08\/06\/an-uneasy-limbo-for-us-pakistan-relations-amidst-the-withdrawal-from-afghanistan\/\u00a0 Keywords: US, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Taliban Brief:\u00a0 The author evaluates the contemporary developments happening in the South Asian landscape as a follow-up to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. 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