Armed forces from developing countries have become increasingly important as facilitators of their government’s foreign policy, taking part in peacekeeping operations, military exercises and humanitarian relief missions.

Since the country’s rapid takeover by the Taliban in early August, foreign aid to Afghanistan has almost entirely ceased. Yet with funding from the international community including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, foreign governments, and humanitarian agencies

On October 2, 1941, the Germans begin their surge to Moscow, led by the 1st Army Group and Gen. Fedor von Bock. The first setback came in August when the Red Army’s tanks drove the Germans back from the Yelnya salient.

The extreme disappointment of the cancellation of the New Zealand and England tour was lessened somewhat by the historic 10 wickets win over India. In Pakistan almost for a decade now cricket is being played peacefully and to prove a point a few days after New Zealand ran off from Pakistan.

According to Mustafa Khan, since the earliest years of the state, Pakistan’s army’s commitment to defending it locks Pakistan into a civilizational battle with India, which the army posits as universally Hindu despite the simple fact that India is a multireligious, multiethnic state.

Gen. (r) Asad Durrani, a prominent defense columnist opines that our Army does not have a lethal arsenal and therefore must make do with its special status in the country. Military in Pakistan has acquired the role of the ultimate arbiter.

Afghanistan’s justice system is in a catastrophic state of disrepair. The majority of Afghans still have little or no access to judicial institutions. Judicial institutions have withered to near non-existence and the lack of justice has destabilized the country.

The Taliban declared the restoration of their Islamic Emirate, days before the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks that sparked the U.S. invasion in Afghanistan. The new government places core hard-line leaders in top positions and excludes women and minorities

Dr. James M Dorsey, an award-winning scholar opines that neither Turkey nor Iran can afford the setbacks that often are the result of hubris. Both have bigger geopolitical, diplomatic, and economic fish to fry and are competing with Saudi Arabia and the UAE for Muslim world leadership.

Iran has close linguistic and cultural ties to Afghanistan, particularly with Tajiks, Persian-speaking Afghans in Herat Province, and the Hazara, a Shiite minority residing in central and northern Afghanistan. Iranian influence in this region runs deep; especially in the city of Herat.

According to Asif Haroon Raja, a war veteran, the US is clearly upset by the growing rapport between Pakistan and the Taliban, they are trying their best to penalize both by using the tools of diplomatic isolation, economic war, proxy war, hybrid war and sanctions.

According to Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Pakistan was a close ally with the US during the cold war era, War in Afghanistan during the 1980s, and the war on terror, but, paid a high price and in return got sanctions and coercion from the US. The nation is not willing to repeat the same mistakes again.