If Kabul is flirting with any defence pact with India including handing strategic access to Bagram, itās inviting a disaster of its own making.
Such a reckless alignment would trigger Pakistanās full-spectrum response, draw serious U.S. suspicion over the misuse of a former American base, and push the Taliban regime to the edge of collapse.
For India, inserting itself militarily into Afghanistan would be a provocation with consequences far beyond its capacity to absorb.
In this region, misadventures donāt just backfire ā they reshape regimes.