Article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/15/afghanistan-blames-border-clash-on-pakistans-bid-to-build-post
Recently, on the border between the two countries of Pakistan and Afghanistan, a skirmish between the Pakistani and Afghani broke out, seemingly because of a recently installed security post leading into Pakistan territory. Interestingly enough, the Taliban claims that there were insider terrorists acting on behalf of the Afghan police that started this scuffle with the Pakistani border control. Others that recounted the situation claim that Pakistani police fired upon the unaware Afghans. Regardless of blame, leadership in both ends of the conflict are meeting to try and reconcile, and reduce the likelihood of another skirmish/outbreak.
Although this may seem like a more tame fight between the two rather hostile countries, I believe this to be an important note to take showing their regard for each other in the current climate. Pakistan was one of the first, and was the last country to develop ties with the Taliban the first time that they took over. Should we let tensions that are developing this time the Taliban took over the government, be a sign that the two countries are not able to keep peace, and perhaps aren’t as closely tied as we may have thought. Perhaps not; regardless, we are still not entirely sure who is at fault for the loss of life in the skirmish that took place, however, the fact that a fight broke out at all is interesting in showing how others are perceiving the new, or old if you will, power that the Taliban has ceased control of. Watching how countries, and global actors will react to the use of this power will lead to further consequences.
Pakistan has long since been recognised as a country, 1947 for the US, to be exact. Afghanistan has been recognised, at least since 1935 when the US established diplomatic ties. However, the legitimacy of the Afghanistan government is to now be questioned, as the rise of the Taliban has already taken place, and no country yet has, at this time, recognised the Taliban government.