Pakistan Will Get ‘Badly Burnt’ If It Courts the Taliban Beyond a Point, Warns Author

Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan reacted to the Taliban* takeover of Afghanistan by proclaiming that Afghans “have broken the shackles of slavery”. Islamabad has taken a leading role in lobbying foreign governments to give the Taliban a “chance”, even as other global powers have said that they would judge the group by its actions and not just words.