 Existence of External Forces in Afghanistan: Pakistans Security Dilemma Since 9/11Syed Shuja Uddin International Journal of Asian Social Science, 2017, vol. 7, issue 4, 311-319 Abstract: Pakistan and Afghanistan suffered a proxy war in the region on the behalf of the foreign interventions since 1979, especially after 9/11. Pakistan faced direct impact of Afghanistan’s internal and external conditions. India, Russia, USA and others countries’ interventions, fragile Pakistan’s survival and breaches its security. Pakistan Geo Strategic interests demands to counter it security threat with the cooperation of common-border countries so that external forces would leave the region. Since great powers’ strategic interests in Afghanistan to pitch against the potential threat of religious extremism, terrorism, drug trafficking and nuclear proliferation which substantiates the assertion that existing great powers in the region have potential to generate effects on Pakistan’s security dilemma. Instability of Afghanistan, fighting proxy war in the region and on the lame of extremism, would make Pakistan instable and weak, it could bring into disintegration. Pakistan’s geo-strategic interests need the re-establishment of peaceful, stable and friendly Afghanistan whose territory not use for external forces and no other country make its land for their on strategic depth. Keywords: Geostrategic; Offensive-Defensive realism; Security Dilemma. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:asi:ijoass:v:7:y:2017:i:4:p:311-319:id:2882 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Asian Social Science from Asian Economic and Social Society |
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