From sponsor to enemy: What’s behind latest conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan?

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been ‌the Afghan Taliban’s closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give Pakistan “strategic depth” in its rivalry with India. What’s gone wrong? Pakistan carried out air strikes on Afghanistan’s major cities overnight, officials in ​Islamabad and Kabul said on Friday, escalating months of border clashes between the Islamic neighbors.

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