Will Durand Line standoff hit Pakistan’s close relationship with Taliban?

The Taliban rulers in Afghanistan and the Pakistan authorities are at loggerheads over Durand Line, the de-facto border among the 2 international locations considering 1893. In what’s being visible as critical escalation, Taliban opponents these days tore down the fencing alongside the Durand Line and avoided Pak Army from once more erecting the fence. No present day Afghan executive has ever time-honored the Durand Line, which changed into drawn up through British civil servant Sir Henry Mortimer Durand after which Afghan ruler Amir Abdur Rahman because the border among British India and Afghanistan. So what’s at the back of the unexpected escalation of the dispute? And ought to the standoff bring about souring of family members among Pakistan Army and the Taliban? TOI spoke to former diplomat TCA Raghavan.