Dr. Naveed Elahi

For decades, Pakistan has faced criticism for its historical relationship with the Afghan Taliban during the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan. Throughout those twenty years, senior Taliban leaders and thousands of their fighters found sanctuary in Pakistan, with the Taliban’s political and military council in Quetta — widely known as the Quetta Shura — becoming symbolic of this reality. Retrospectively, this policy can be viewed as a strategic miscalculation. The decision was influenced by religious affinity, shared ethnicity, cultural proximity, and geopolitical calculations aimed at securing Pakistan’s western frontier.

US backed Karzai Support to Taliban

 While these factors shaped.