Growing India-Taliban ties anger neighboring Pakistan

KABUL: As fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan escalated into rare, bloody combat this month, Islamabad pointed fingers at another adversary, accusing India of fueling the conflict. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that New Delhi had “incited” the Afghan Taliban, while his Defense Minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, described Kabul as acting like a “proxy of India.” Existential archrivals, Pakistan and India have fought repeated wars since partition cleaved the subcontinent at the end of British rule in 1947.

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