Pakistan won Afghanistan

Pakistan, nominally a U.S. partner in the war, was the Afghan Taliban’s main patron, and sees the Taliban’s victory as its own. But now what does it do with its prize?
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The Real Winner of the Afghan War? It’s Not Who You Think.

Pakistan, nominally a U.S. partner in the war, was the Afghan Taliban’s main patron, and sees the Taliban’s victory as its own. But now what does it do with its prize?

It's well known that Pakistan, through its proxy Taliban, engineered US's defeat in Afghanistan, yet US is unlikely to remove Pakistan as its "Major Non-NATO" ally. Less known is that US never designated Taliban as a terrorist group. Biden still refuses to call Taliban an enemy.
— Brahma Chellaney (@Chellaney) August 21, 2021

"During Pakistan’s 2019-2020 fiscal year, the U S was once again the top donor country to Pakistan" (US Embassy). Given all-out Paki support for Taliban & servility to China, why ? Trump ? No: the US Congress, reflecting the "Washington consensus". Leave Biden be, investigate it
— Edward N Luttwak (@ELuttwak) August 18, 2021

The US gave the most money to Pakistan.

In 2009, in an attempt to signal the United States’ renewed commitment to Pakistan, the US Congress approved the Enhanced Partnership for Pakistan Act (commonly known as the Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill, or KLB). KLB’s intention was to put security and development on two separate tracks, insulating the development agenda from unpredictable geopolitical and military events and facilitating longer-term planning for development. The act authorized a tripling of US economic and development-related assistance to Pakistan, or $7.5 billion over five years (FY2010 to FY2014), to improve Pakistan’s governance, support its economic growth, and invest in its people.

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