Three years have gone since the Taliban took control in Afghanistan. The administration resume office on August 15, 2021, following former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s sudden escape and the system’s collapse. Everyone, even the Taliban, believed that capturing Kabul would require a long war between the Taliban and Afghan forces. The United States and its allies also abandoned Bagram Air Base and other military sites in the middle of the night, allowing the Taliban to take control of the entire country, including Kabul, with more power than before.
Initially, this interim government faced some mutual differences and attacks by ISIS, but soon these problems were overcome, after August 15, 2021, Pakistan was attacked as the Afghan Taliban and their government not only began to patronize the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and other groups, but a significant part of the modern weapons left by the United States came in their notice, and as a result, record attacks were launched on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Pakistan attempted to exert as much pressure as possible on Afghanistan’s interim government to force or persuade it to take action against the TTP but was unsuccessful. During this time, throughout Imran Khan’s reign, a negotiation process was initiated at the request of the Afghan Taliban, which lasted about a year but produced no significant results. When the current Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan, General Syed Asim Munir, took over, the negotiation process was terminated and intelligence-based operations were launched in various areas of Pakistan, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Meanwhile, tensions and bitterness between Pakistan and Afghanistan have escalated, and experts predict that when Pakistan achieves political stability, it will take more steps against Afghanistan and TTP, among other things, in light of the current situation.
The Taliban appear to have made peace in Afghanistan, but the country’s institutional system, economic conditions, and human rights issues are not improving, and the international community is concerned that groups like al-Qaeda and TTP are not only supported by the state, and the region’s security challenges, particularly in Pakistan, have increased. The Afghan people are also confronting significant political and economic issues.