💨 Abstract

This article discusses Pakistan's ongoing struggle with insurgencies in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, comparing it to the British Empire's counter-insurgency campaigns in Afghanistan a century ago. The British, it suggests, faced similar issues of cost and effectiveness, resorting to brutal tactics like air bombardment and punitive expeditions that ultimately failed to secure their border.

Courtesy: theprint.in

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