Pakistan’s statecraft has long flirted with a Faustian bargain: to wield Islamist militancy, covert proxies, and extremist ideologies as tools of foreign policy and strategic depth, especially vis-à-vis Afghanistan and India. What we are now seeing is not a “mistake” or an aberration, it is the crippling harvest of a poisonous design. The very instruments … Continue reading The Collapse of “Strategic Depth”: How Pakistan’s Jihad Doctrine Undermined Its Statecraft