Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations Strained by Lack of Trust: Expert

Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan are far from satisfactory primarily due to the absence of trust, Syed Abrar Hussain, the former Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan and Vice President of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in Islamabad, told Sputnik.

Hussain further highlighted that Kabul has struggled to exert sufficient control over Pakistani militants and other extremist elements, who continue to carry out attacks in Pakistan, despite the formation of a government by the Taliban* movement.

Recent strain in Pakistan-Afghanistan relations has been triggered by terrorist attacks in Pakistan as well as border disputes. Pakistan asserts that the Afghan Taliban have failed to eradicate safe havens for anti-Pakistan militant groups.