Four years after the Taliban’s return to power and the fall of Afghanistan’s civilian leadership, realpolitik has come to define India’s policy towards Kabul like never before. New Delhi is now openly engaging with the Taliban regime, even upgrading its mission to a full-fledged embassy signaling not just a phase of normalisation and tacit recognition, but strategic alignment—one that could not have been imagined if not witnessed with our own eyes in the last few days. Meanwhile, Pakistan is caught in a nightmare situation, receiving not just a bloody nose from the Taliban but a very real two-front scenario with the Taliban-led Afghanistan becoming a sworn enemy of Islamabad. Shubhangi Sharma elaborates on Finepoint. n18oc_world News18 Mobile App – https://onelink.to/desc-youtube