Over the past two decades, Pakistan has gradually shifted its strategic focus from its eastern frontier with India, its historical rival, toward the two countries on its western flank. One of those countries is Afghanistan, which under the Taliban is expanding its influence into Pakistan’s Pashtun-majority areas. The other is Iran, where the fallout of […]
Pakistan’s Western Frontier in Growing Peril
Neighbors and separatists to the west are threatening the country.
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