Pakistan Seeks a New Chapter of Engagement with Afghanistan’s Tajik Community.
Pakistani political activist Jan Achakzai says Islamabad aims to move beyond past tensions and rebuild relations with Afghanistan’s Tajik community, stressing that Pakistan is not an enemy of Tajik people.
In a post on X, Achakzai wrote that Tajiks have never made territorial claims in Afghanistan’s history and therefore are not seen by Pakistan as a threat to its interests.
Referring to previous policies, he said Pakistan once supported certain Afghan Pashtun factions in the name of stability, but that approach resulted in ethnic supremacy, extremism, and the instrumentalization of violence.
He argued that such movements have failed to offer solutions to Afghanistan’s crisis and have ignored the rights and identities of non-Pashtun communities, including Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks. He described the Taliban as an extreme manifestation of this mindset.
Achakzai emphasized that Pakistan now seeks direct engagement with the Tajik community through grassroots dialogue and mutual cooperation, warning that continued ethnic monopolization could push Afghanistan toward deeper instability.
