US POLICIES IN AFGHANISTAN SINCE 9/11: IMPACT ON PAKISTAN
Keywords:
US, Afghanistan, 9/11, Impacts, PakistanAbstract
United States under the banner of NATO, with United Nation’s resolution attacked Afghanistan primarily to defeat Taliban, dismantle Al-Qaeda and lessen the role of non-state actors. Soon after the demise of Taliban she started reconstruction of building of Afghan nation and spent more than a trillion dollars for the said purpose, with few apparent achievements, yet she couldn't achieve the desired targets due to many factors. United States adopted different approaches in the reins of George. W. Bush, Barrack Hussain Obama, and now Donald Trump. The mountainous terrain of Afghanistan proved more difficult than Vietnam for America. She looked many things with her own approach of handling issues with lack of understanding of new dimensions of Afghan social fabric, treacherous nature of regional players and last but not the least, the loopholes in handling increasing militancy and reorganization of Taliban in Afghanistan. Pakistan was impacted in many ways, and is still facing the music of collateral damages, economic deficits, institutional crisis, militancy and mistrust. USA is now in a hurry to ramp up their final withdrawal from Afghanistan and is using every possible platform which can help them in providing a face-saving opportunity. It’s a perspective paper and includes analysis of the authors based upon well-researched data.
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