London, March 17 -- Burzine Waghmar, Iranian and Pakistan studies expert at the University of London, said that Pakistan has come to the grim realisation that "Taliban 2.0 is a different kettle of fish than Taliban 1.0."

On Pakistan's airstrike on the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul, Waghmar said that Pakistan has now realised that Afghanistan would not remain a vassal state for it.

He told ANI, "Pakistan categorically told Beijing last week that there is no point in discussing anything with Kabul since the latter refuses to even meet our basic threshold of demands...Taliban 2.0 is a different kettle of fish from Taliban 1.0, which Pakistan has come to realise very grimly. This Afghanistan is not going to be Pakistan's vassal...