Pakistan, April 3 -- Pakistan, since its inception, has been unsuccessfully striving to have a friction-free relationship with Afghanistan. Both countries, more often than not, are described as inseparable Siamese twins with a sizeable Pashtun population living across the Durand line bound with each other by blood, linguistic, cultural and spiritual links and economic interdependence including the border and foreign trade.

The Afghan leaders, for unfathomable reasons, have indulged in hostile acts against Pakistan right from its emergence obstructing its membership in the UN; repudiating the Durand line as the international border; supporting the bogey of Pakhtunistan; harbouring rebel Baloch nationalists; providing sanctuaries to the TT...