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Durand Conundrum

In an inadvertently loaded remark, the Taliban has willy-nilly questioned the sovereign integrity of Pakistan by asking it to stop fencing the Durand Line, as it does not recognise it. Oddly enough, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the Taliban does not dispute the borders with other neighbours like Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran or even China – but counterintuitively so only with its benefactor, Pakistan