• Amartya Ray

Pakistan is a country full of riddles, both internally and externally. Its borders with Afghanistan is challenged by the latter and it is also one of the most porous in the world; as the same community, Pashtuns, are living on both sides of the Durand Line. Pakistan always had deep strategic interest in Afghanistan and the Taliban regime in Kabul was a product of that. At the onset of the American war on terror on Afghan soil, to eliminate the Al-Qaida, the pro-Islamabad Taliban government was also targeted and eventually it fell. This development put Pakistan in a precarious position to which it responded in a peculiar way. The US and its allies believe it played a dubious role while Pakistan claims it has done what was to be done, and with fullest capacity and truest intent. This paper is an attempt of taking stock of two contradictory positions held by two sides and it also prescribes ways as to how to find reconciliation between the two.

Pakistan, Afghanistan, the USA, war on terror, Taliban

"THE AMBIGUITY AROUND PAKISTAN'S ROLE IN WAR ON TERROR: AN ASSESSMENT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.28-31, September 2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809982.pdf

"THE AMBIGUITY AROUND PAKISTAN'S ROLE IN WAR ON TERROR: AN ASSESSMENT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp28-31, September 2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809982.pdf