🦊 "The fox reporting a break-in at the henhouse"
This phrase perfectly frames the absurdity of Pakistan warning the world about terrorism in Afghanistan—a threat largely amplified by its own decades-long strategic behavior.
🔍 Selective Memory at the UN
Pakistan’s Ambassador, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, warning about the TTP and ISIS-K is valid in the abstract. These groups are real threats. But the omission of Pakistan's own role—in nurturing the Afghan Taliban, sheltering Haqqani Network leaders, and supporting cross-border militant groups like LeT and JeM—turns the statement into an act of geopolitical gaslighting.
🧨 Blowback in Real Time
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The TTP, which shares ideological and operational roots with the Afghan Taliban, is now targeting Pakistan itself—a predictable case of proxy terror backfiring.
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After Pakistan conducted airstrikes in Afghan territory in 2024, the Taliban mobilized up to 15,000 fighters to the border, a rare flex of force.
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Meanwhile, 558 deaths from TTP attacks in 2024 underscore that Pakistan’s internal security is unraveling in areas like North Waziristan, once the hub of Pakistan's own counterinsurgency efforts.
🛑 The India Blame Game (Again)
As usual, Pakistan invoked the tired narrative of “Indian-backed terrorists” to deflect attention. But international observers are well aware that:
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LeT and JeM, whose operatives have carried out attacks in India and Afghanistan, have long operated with state tolerance or support.
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Pakistan’s claims rarely come with independent evidence, while its own record is littered with documented safe havens for militants.
🧩 The ISI-Taliban Connection
Pakistan’s powerful ISI played a shadowy but significant role in the Taliban’s return to power after the U.S. withdrawal in 2021:
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Provided sanctuary, funding, intelligence, and logistics for decades.
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Reportedly facilitated the Kabul offensive, which stunned the world in its speed and coordination.
Yet now, with the Taliban in power, Pakistan finds itself unable to control or influence its former clients. The TTP is more emboldened, and the Taliban refuses to crack down on them, citing ideological affinity and cross-border Pashtun solidarity.
💣 Terrorism as Foreign Policy — A Double-Edged Sword
What Pakistan once weaponized as strategic depth has mutated into an uncontrollable insurgency at home. The boomerang is real:
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The world has watched Pakistan's Janus-faced policy—supporting terror groups for leverage in India and Afghanistan, while pleading victimhood at global forums.
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Islamabad’s credibility is now severely diminished in multilateral spaces like the UN.
🧭 Final Word
Until Pakistan confronts its complicity in creating and enabling the very terror networks it now fears, its international posturing will continue to appear hypocritical, hollow, and historically revisionist.
As the old saying goes, “Those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.” Pakistan is now facing that whirlwind.
