Albert Science International Organization

Barkat Ullah and Asma Akbar, Afghanistan: change in regime and prospects for Pakistan, ASIO Journal of Humanities, Management & Social Sciences Invention (ASIO-JHMSSI), 2022, 8(1): 01-04.

Affiliation:
1Research associate in the International Parliamentarians’ Congress, Islamabad. 
2Student of International Relations in the Muslim Youth University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Abstarct:
The United States of America and the Taliban concluded the two-decade long war in 2020, through a peace agreement names Doha agreement. As a result of which, the US and its NATO allies made a hasty military withdrawal from the Afghanistan, which left a vacuum in the country. The Taliban took the advantage of the situation and regained the momentum by capturing the Kabul, capital city of the Afghanistan, on the 15th of August 2021. Keeping the current multilateral engagement in mind, the Taliban takeover have immense implication domestically as well as aboard. In the contemporary era, the interconnectedness, multilateral engagement, and economic integration are the major hallmarks of the world, because of inter-dependence, advanced technologies, metro and cosmopolitanism, which is overall called globalization. No state can remain isolate and ignored of the proceedings occurs in other states. Therefore, due to the emergence of Taliban as a major stakeholder in Afghanistan, a number of positive and negative impacts for the region and the neighbors of the war-suffered country have become inevitable. Pakistan, one of the major neighbors of Afghanistan, shares several cultural, religious and social identities with the latter. As a result of the recent Taliban’s takeover, Pakistan faces a number of implications, of political, strategic and economic nature. This paper tends to uncover those implications in an organized way. Moreover, it highlights the suggestions for the Pakistan’s foreign policy, in order to deal all those implications in a befitting way. 

Keywords: United States of America, NATO, Taliban, Doha Agreement, Pakistan. 

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