Pakistan’s achievements in war on terror but at what cost: a special review of the current decade

National security and regional geostrategic imperatives had mainly weighed on Pakistan’s policy choice to join the US-led War on Terror in 2001. Pakistan did not want these two challenges to grow stronger by staying away from international community’s call to join hands against terrorists. While joining the WoT largely meant, at least in the initial phases, to support and facilitate the US war in Afghanistan, but Pakistan took no
time to realise that the real war was here. Different brands of local, Afghan and other foreign militant groups sneaked into Pakistan’s tribal areas while fleeing the bombardment by the US-led international forces in Afghanistan. That is how Pakistan’s road to chaos started, where the international community kept judging Pakistan’s ‘contribution’ in WoT only in Afghanistan’s perspective, fully ignoring its own internal
and regional security challenges and meager resources to cope with these.