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By Shashi Tharoor - Project Syndicate | May 5, 2025

Pakistan spent decades nurturing, sheltering, arming, training, and financing the Taliban, which it viewed as a convenient instrument for exerting control over Afghanistan and achieving “strategic depth” against India. But as Dr. Frankenstein discovered, you cannot always control the monsters you create.

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