How Taliban-Pakistan ceasefire stalled due to fatwa

On the one hand, a terrorist plot is being made against India through Turkey. Türkiye is also trying to broker a peace agreement between Pakistan and Afghanistan. However, a fatwa dashed Türkiye’s hopes. What is this fatwa and how did the Taliban now plan to take over Pakistan instead of the fatwa?

Taliban Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar instructed Afghan traders to suspend trade with Pakistan and seek alternative routes and markets. Trade is seen as the key to preventing any war as it connects the interests of both countries. However, the closure of trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan clearly means that all avenues for dialogue are closed.

Afghanistan also began to prepare for war by suspending trade. Afghan forces are conducting maneuvers, repairing old weapons and testing new ones. The Afghan Foreign Minister also explained the reason for this preparation. Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Muttaqi deeply regretted the statements of Pakistani leaders and made it clear that Afghan forces were ready to teach them a lesson if Pakistan attacked.

The Afghan Taliban has high-tech weapons left behind by the United States. Afghan engineers are also developing new weapons. Afghan army engineers have created robots that can fire AK-47s and other deadly automatic rifles. These are controlled through computers and artificial intelligence. This means that this time the Pakistani army will also face Afghanistan’s high-tech robot army. Pakistan’s biggest fear is that the fighters approaching Islamabad will launch attacks from within Pakistan, not from the border.

How did Afghanistan-Pakistan peace talks fail?

A compromise could have been reached in the peace talks held in Istanbul between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

– Pakistan wanted Afghan Taliban’s Religious Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada to declare that the war in Pakistan is not Islamic.

– So the Taliban chief must declare that the TTP’s ongoing conflict against Pakistan is illegitimate. However, the Afghan Taliban flatly rejected this demand.

– Regarding this issue, Taliban negotiators explained to Pakistan that Taliban orders are orders, not fatwas.

– And if Pakistan wants any religious sect, it should make a formal application to Darul Ifta, the fatwa-issuing body of the Taliban.

– Here too, Pakistan should not expect to receive a fatwa voluntarily; The fatwa will be as required by sharia law.

– Following this strange request from Pakistan, Taliban negotiators made it clear that the Afghan Taliban cannot call the war being waged outside Afghanistan legitimate or illegitimate. Thereupon, the Istanbul meetings were canceled. And today, Pakistan is at war on two fronts due to its stubbornness.