Why Pakistan is fighting the Taliban it once backed | Mapped Out
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Pakistan once hoped to have a friendly neighbor in Afghanistan. But Pakistan is now fighting the Afghan Taliban it once helped create. During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, Pakistan's powerful secret service, the ISI, supported the Mujahideen fighters who formed the Taliban with money, training and weapons. The Taliban regime has been back in power since the sudden withdrawal of US and NATO troops in 2021.
UPDATE February 2026:
Pakistan has declared "open war" on the Afghan Taliban. There has been a wave of Pakistani air and ground strikes on Afghanistan, including on the capital, Kabul. The Afghan Taliban announced a major offensive on Pakistani military posts. Fighting continues along the border. Both sides have reported heavy losses. The UN is calling for "urgent political dialogue" to end the fighting.
A recent shaky ceasefire between Pakistan and the Taliban government in Kabul is complicated by another Taliban grouping: The Pakistani Taliban or Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The TTP have been carrying out suicide bombings and attacks in Pakistan. Islamabad has accused the Afghan Taliban of backing the terrorist group and also of giving them refuge inside Afghanistan. But the Afghan Taliban has denied the claims and is now looking to Pakistan's archrival India for support. Meanwhile, a colonial-era border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Durand Line, is adding fuel to the fire.
Long Live Pakistan, we will fight till our last breath
UPDATE February 2026:
Pakistan has declared "open war" on the Afghan Taliban. There has been a wave of Pakistani air and ground strikes on Afghanistan, including on the capital, Kabul. The Afghan Taliban announced a major offensive on Pakistani military posts. Fighting continues along the border. Both sides have reported heavy losses. The UN is calling for "urgent political dialogue" to end the fighting.
Sounds like Monty python The People's Front of Judea
#mappedout
Was the narration done by AI?
Chapters:
What you sow,
You'll reap...
No empathise for them at all
00:00 Pakistan's deadliest year
00:56 The Taliban Pakistan helped create
Taliban is NOT Islam
03:30 Pashtun heartland
04:43 Durand Line: The colonial border issue
Pakistan Taliban fighting Pakistan , they created a monster
06:45 The TTP: The other Taliban
09:13 Pakistan's security dilemma: Pick your Taliban
Pakistani defence minister is to lazy that he appears every documentary 😂😂😂
12:17 US withdrawal from Afghanistan
13:10 India: Afghanistan's unexpected ally
They didn't learn after watching us back the taliban in the 80's...everyone thinks they can ride the dragon.
15:01 How the conflict affects China and the region
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Wait...I'm halfway through the video and no mention of the third Taliban? The Haqqani Network is the third Taliban.
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Pakistan was warned about this decades ago. they hosted a monster and now that the monster's enemy is gone, its going to swallow them whole.
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9 Pakistani jets shot down 5 F16s AND 4 JF17s + 11 Pakistani airbases bombed by India on May 2025 with impunity 😂😂😂
Hence Pakistani self appointed Marshal Munir ran to Trump crying for a ceasefire
Hence now Pakistan literally follows all instructions sent from the Trump Whitehouse from acting as mediator for Trump to Iran to secretly giving Pakistani nuclear weapons access to the USA 😅
Also Pakistan cannot look at India so they fight Afghanistan
#Pakistan #Afghanistan #WarOnTerror
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islamists are fighting to establish sharia, but Europeans are at fault because they used to have colonies there. that's interesting logic
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@TheObservantJew-gb8ucshow acciurate mapof india
@RaumitSharma-b2xGreat, I’m cheering for both sides to lose.
@josephthompson9289What goes around, comes around.
@wastedwisdom😂😂😂
@rajeshradhakrishnan-xk1lhA famous quote attributed to Hazrat Ali (R.A). In English, it translates to:"Beware the evil of the one to whom you have shown kindness."
@AleeRajpoot-d7m2k😂 I mean karma a mofo
@kalcampbell6580British were the worst of the worst. Almost every conflict fought at the current time is because of the British colonial era legacy and then came American greedy policy making it far worse than the worst that already existed. The sad story is- its the innocent and the helpless who suffers.
@thehellicare-003-aMind you pakistan was helping Taliban itself.
@SS.prx1India should supply drones artillery and mlrs to Taliban ☝🏻
@RNKao1968Don't lie, US is the creator of Mujahedeen.
@InJesusName442It’s a lie because it was the CIA and central intelligence agencies and the United States government and it’s allies that Back then first during the Soviet-afghan war
@brianwelborn5220Pakistan paying for some of its sins.
@1234bangarangLol i dont feel bad at all dont ask America for help 😅😂
@RiverGreenPhilippines is also a victim of British border assignment.
@3rdegree_357Dont feel bad for pakistan at all.
@AstrojamusTimestamp: 1:24 - How can you put the entire J&K (India) as a disputed region? Is it not one of India's states by international law? Do your homework properly before publish. It is such an uneducated rookie mistake @DW News.
@momo_momo005All these are part of India before partition.
@NarasingaraoMantriIt's the Anglo-Afghan war in disguise. Total conspiratorial...
@ArbabAkram-ew1npIm so happy my grandma went to india during the partition ❤😊
@just_ah_toolThey totally deserve this we came for 20 years and all they did was profit from hiding the Taliban.
Enjoy your just desserts
Why are jeets in the comments so happy about this? Pakistan did not even support the Taliban to fight against them, so what's the big deal?
@sinewave1578Pakistan hamesha zinda baad
@AliWaqarEAfghanistan has uper hand on this war and Afghanistan 🇦🇫 will win this war by help and support of ALLAH
@MohammadAshrafRasouliEverywhere on the planet there are young men who feel they have been left behind, in a hopeless rut. Of course they feel the allure to join a violent group in exchange for a feeling of self importance.
@spelunkerdThis is poorly researched, biased opinions being presented as facts. Pakistan thought it could control Afghanistan as a vassal state by supporting Taliban and unsurprisingly it backfired as Taliban didn’t want to be dictated by Pakistan. The welcome Taliban received in India wasn’t at a state event but an extremist religious organisation. Do your research before you peddle such junk
@ravivemuri892skidmark dirt squatters
@ronalddavis5:40 They are blaming white pll 😂 I can't with you guys 😅
@richardhildebrandt1440It's amazing how the middle east is aways at war, with or without the U.S.
@SimplyLowDeals3:35 border between pakistan and afghanistan.
@dplj4428i admit it. My geography knowledge is weak.
@dplj4428Thought exercise: if Pakistan’s borders are redrawn and Baloch and Pashtun areas are given to Afghanistan, could Pakistan function better as a smaller and more cohesive rump state ? This British era border line seems like it’s never gonna make the afghans peaceful and content
@junsu21What a nonsensical map is this? The entire Kashmir is shown as disputed. You are not honoring Indian's sovereign statehood.
@ateendrakumar5276No mentions India’s infiltration of the ttp better than India’s own Bollywood
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