KARACHI -- Despite simmering tensions, recent agreements between Pakistan and the Taliban administration in Kabul to prioritize trade point toward a complex interplay among security concerns, economic ambitions and competition between key ports in the region, analysts and traders say.
This shift comes after a tense period that saw Pakistan conduct rare airstrikes inside Afghanistan against suspected hideouts of Pakistani militant groups on March 18, killing eight people and prompting Afghan forces to return fire on the border.
