raharris1973
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That's the challenge - Have the Pakistani deep state, military and ISI, end up preferring to work with somebody in Afghanistan instead of the Taliban. In OTL, they always found the alternatives: monarchy, the reds, the northern alliance, Karzai, Ghani - unacceptable. They were fairly OK with Hekmatyar, but when the Taliban came along, they preferred them. What factors over the last 30 years or so could have aligned Pakistan's own perceived interests with a non-Taliban faction?