Pakistan-Afghanistan War

The Pakistan-Afghanistan War was the result of a lot of things. Pakistan had long been complaining about Afghanistan stealing and using exclusively all the hydric resources of the border, trying to control the rivers in order to harm Pakistan.

Afghanistan at the time was doing way better than Pakistan economically. Different from the first that had been heavily affected by the crisis in NAUball, Afghanistan as part of the Russian Greater SFSRball bloc had just seen growth since the end of the wars. It started to industrialize and finally launched itself as a modern and stable country in less than 10 years, nonetheless the process was concluded with much violence and political repression, which brought suffer to a lot of communities and so many Afghans who were political dissidents of the regime fled to Pakistan.

The war also had Iran as a key mentor. Iran had been constantly trying to interfer into Pakistan's politics, reflecting a change of its previous position. Iran used to have problems with Balochi separatists in its territory, but after the army smashed the insurgents, the government started to desire the unification of the entire region under its command in a form of expansionism and nationalism, which attracted the interest of some Balochis. It gave rhetorical support to enemies of the government, such as communists and shia groups, as these two identified with Iran's ideology that combined both socialist and islamic elements.

Afghanistan started to contest the border with Pakistan as it had no ideological sympathy with the neighbor, saying it would never accept a border drawn by the British imperialists that stole Afghan territory and divided its people.

Due to the economic crisis going on in Pakistan, Pashtun nationalism and separatism saw a growth from inside as they saw the success their fellow Pashtuns were having in Afghanistan. The Afghan government noticing that started to give rhetorical support to these groups, asking for the reunification of the "Pashtunistan". Iran was long doing the same with Balochis and Afghanistan just followed its examples.

Pakistan said Afghanistan was asking for conflicts, especially after they militarized the border as a result of the support the Pakistani government used to give to Afghan islamists. Most Taleeban associates fled to Pakistan after the end of the Afghan civil war, there they started to spread their ideas among the local Pashtun population in opposition to the separatists and nationalists that sympathized with the Afghan government.

The Taleebans re militarized in Pakistan and launched attacks and raids against Afghan territory from the other side of the border. They also asked the Pakistani government to invade or support an invasion of Afghanistan in order topple down the "infidel secularist government". Pakistan was in no condition of invading the neighbor, but it could finance those groups and allow them to cross the border to attack Afghanistan in an attempt to destabilize it.

The Afghan government after militarizing the border stopped to just give rhetorical support to Pashtun nationalists and separatists inside of Pakistan and started to arm them to rise against the government and fight against the armed islamists there that where attacking Afghanistan. This created a proxy conflict that affected most Pakistan as Afghanistan could better defend from the raids the Taleebans and other islamists launched. Pakistan now had another problem that where the Afghan backed militias, the Afghan civil war seemed to have a spillover in the country, this forced the Pakistani government to crack down on these militias together with the islamists, escalating the conflict.

Pakistan attacked Afghanistan in a "defensive attack" against trucks that would supposedly deliver weapons to anti-government rebels in the border. The attack killed 30 civilians as the trucks were positioned in a village. The Afghan government responded by bombing a Pakistani military base, Pakistan then tried to retaliate but was intercepted and Afghanistan invaded it followed by an Iranian attack on Balochistan. Initially their claim was to defeat the Taleebans and other islamists attacking Afghan territory, but later after fighting together with the Pashtun separatists there they defended the annexation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Pakistan that had defeated India in war 6 years before the crisis started, annexing Jammu and Kashmir plus Kargil, had to face that just like India, its era was over. They had finally conquered Kashmir, but ended up losing Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to Afghanistan and Balochistan to Iran, it was that or they would entirely collapse, so just like India they had to accept defeat.

The Russian Greater SFSRball was initially reluntant to support Iranian war efforts, but as it wanted to have Iran in its sphere of influence at every cost they accepted and later sent support to Afghanistan. Ling Chinaball however didn't like the destabilization in the region as it feared the conflict could have some spillover in his East Turkestan, so it accepted to mediate the negotiations between the two countries as they had previously been cooperating with Afghanistan economically and with Pakistan against India. An agreement was signed in Kashgar to stop the war.