Is Pakistan setting up a buffer zone in Afghanistan?

Deutsche Welle · 🇩🇪 public Germany · Apr 01, 2026 · 923 words · By Waslat Hasrat-Nazimi

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Deutsche Welle reports: Is Pakistan setting up a buffer zone in Afghanistan?.

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Deutsche Welle reports: Is Pakistan setting up a buffer zone in Afghanistan?.

Why it matters

April 1, 2026While Pakistan works on positioning itself as potential mediator in the war between the US, Israel, and Iran, its forces continue to wage war on the Afghan Taliban along Pakistan's western border.

Common ground

Pakistani forces are increasingly bombing border regions in Afghanistan, and reports have emerged Islamabad is working on creating a sphere of influence along the border, also known by its colonial-era name, the Durand Line.

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Claim 1: “The assembly issued a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2007 Kurram Agency conflict, also known as the Siege of Parachinar, began on 6 April 2007 in Kurram Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan when a group of Sunni gunmen opened fire o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Kurram_Agency_conflict

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced the holding of a consultative grand council called the Afghanistan's National Consultative Peace Jirga (NCPJ) or Peace Jirga in his inauguration speech on 19 No…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Peace_Jirga_2010

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A jirga (Pashto: جرګه, jərga) is an assembly of leaders that makes decisions by consensus according to Pashtunwali, the Pashtun social code. It is conducted in order to settle disputes among the Pasht…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jirga

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Claim 2: “Pakistani forces targeted Afghan capital, Kabul”

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Claim 3: “Tahir Khan stated Pakistan considers the frontier with Afghanistan an international border”

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Claim 4: “Ali K. Chishti confirmed the establishment of a buffer zone”

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Claim 5: “Pakistani diplomat Asif Durrani stated Pakistan has made clear demands to the Afghan Taliban”

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Claim 6: “The Taliban in Afghanistan have rejected reports of Pakistani forces on Afghan soil”

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Claim 7: “The initial clashes took place in the fall of 2025”

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Claim 8: “The Durand Line was named after Henry Mortimer Durand and formally drawn in 1893”

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Claim 9: “Pakistan accuses Afghanistan's Taliban-ruled government of supporting militant groups like the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP)”

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Claim 10: “A 'Pakistan-Afghanistan Peace Jirga' convened on March 31 in Peshawar”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Afghan mujahideen were Islamist militant groups that fought against the Afghanistan government and the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War and the subsequent Afghan Civil War. The term mujah…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or simply the Pakistani Taliban, is a Deobandi jihadist militant organization that primarily operates along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border. It is designated as a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban

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Claim 11: “Pakistan works on positioning itself as potential mediator in the war between the US, Israel, and Iran”

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Claim 12: “Reports are emerging of a security zone stretching up to 32 kilometers inside Afghan territory”

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Claim 13: “Reports have emerged Islamabad is working on creating a sphere of influence along the border”

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Claim 14: “Pakistani forces continue to wage war on the Afghan Taliban along Pakistan's western border”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An armed conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan began in late February 2026 following Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan's Nangarhar, Paktika, and Khost provinces. Pakistan said the strikes target…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Afghanistan–Pakistan_conf…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes are a series of armed clashes consisting of cross-border airstrikes and exchanges of gunfire between the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan–Pakistan_clashes_(…

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Claim 15: “Human Rights Watch described a Pakistani airstrike in Kabul as an 'unlawful attack'”

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Claim 16: “Pakistani forces are increasingly bombing border regions in Afghanistan”

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Claim 17: “Pakistan's defense minister said Islamabad was in a state of 'open war' with Afghanistan”

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