A Crticial Analysis Of Afghanistan's Regime Change And Opportunities For Pakistan

Zahid Mehmood Zahid Asad Altaf
2022 Zenodo  
In 2020, the United States of America and the Taliban signed a peace pact known as the Doha Agreement, which brought an end to the two-decade-long conflict. As a result, the US and its NATO partners made a quick military departure from Afghanistan, leaving the nation in a state of chaos. On the 15th of August 2021, the Taliban took advantage of the circumstances and regained momentum by conquering Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city.Considering the ongoing multinational engagement, the Taliban
more » ... eovers have far-reaching implications both at home and abroad. Because of interdependence, advanced technology, urbanization and cosmopolitanism, which is collectively known as globalization, interconnection, multilateral involvement, and economic integration are the key features of the world in the modern period.No state can remain isolated and unconcerned with what is going on in other states. As a result of the Taliban's rise as a significant participant in Afghanistan, a variety of positive and negative consequences for the area and the country's war-torn neighbors have become unavoidable. Pakistan, as one of Afghanistan's major neighbors, shares a number of cultural, religious, and social identities with the latter.Pakistan confronts a range of political, strategic, and economic consequences as a result of the Taliban's recent takeover. The purpose of this work is to identify those implications in a systematic manner. Furthermore, it emphasizes recommendations for Pakistan's foreign policy in order to address all of the ramifications in an appropriate manner.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.6423468 fatcat:7lhzz3cr3vfthp3jov2ytxgyjq