The world’s only country to be born in the name of religion i.e., Pakistan (literally, land of the pure) has what it condescendingly calls ‘brotherly relations’ with two co-religious Islamic nations i.e., the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
It also has a 3,323 km long land border (Line-of-Control or the LoC) with a third, secular nation i.e., India, with whom it has had at least four official wars i.e., 1947-48, 1965, 1971, and 1999 (Kargil), besides openly supporting secessionist movements within its territory. Since independence, Pakistani citizenry has fatally been fed notions of a ‘cowardly baniya’ across the LOC, despite consistent defeat in each of the wars.
Cut to 2023-24, Pakistan’s territorial integrity has been attacked and bloodied, routinely. Ironically, the attacks don’t come from the traditional enemy in India but from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan which refuses to recognise the sanctity of its 2,640 km long border or the Durand Line.