What interests did the Taliban purportedly serve Pakistan, apart from being a massive drain on resources, an international liability and radicalising influence at home? The situation would change shortly, the Taliban government would fall and due to its cooperation with the US, Pakistan would come under attack from a newly formed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Their presence was denied by the Taliban but as there was an ideological convergence between the two, the Taliban would not have handed them over in any case. The relationship between the TTP and the TTA (Afghan Taliban) has been a source of the good-Taliban-bad-Taliban binary for long. If you have not noticed, the US and its installed government are gone, and the Taliban now control the country.
