{"id":76529,"date":"2026-02-28T03:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/27\/pakistan-miscalculation-taliban-afghanistan"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:12:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:12:02","slug":"pakistans-patience-runs-out-after-badly-miscalculating-over-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76529","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s patience runs out after badly miscalculating over Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military reckoned \u2018good\u2019 Afghan insurgents were separate from \u2018bad\u2019 Pakistani insurgents but distinction has blurred<\/p>\n<p>Days after the Taliban swept to power in 2021, Pakistan\u2019s then spymaster appeared in Kabul on what looked to many like a victory lap. Sipping tea in the lobby of the Afghan capital\u2019s fanciest hotel, Lt Gen Faiz Hameed told reporters: \u201cDon\u2019t worry, everything will be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This week it became clear just how badly Pakistan had miscalculated how it could rely on the Taliban, as Islamabad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/27\/pakistan-declares-state-of-open-war-after-bombing-major-afghan-cities\">unleashed airstrikes in Afghanistan<\/a> and troops from both countries fought each other on the border.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/27\/pakistan-miscalculation-taliban-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military reckoned \u2018good\u2019 Afghan insurgents were separate from \u2018bad\u2019 Pakistani insurgents but distinction has blurredDays after the Taliban swept to power in 2021, Pakistan\u2019s then spymaster appeared in Kabul on what looked to many like a victory lap. Si&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,60,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76530,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76529\/revisions\/76530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}