Pakistan struck Kabul overnight and declared open war against an opponent with no air force, no tanks — yet, as russia-Ukraine war has shown, predicting how fight between mismatched opponents ends has proved far harder than reading balance sheet suggests
If they aren’t trying to hold it, winning a war becomes pretty realistic goal. taliban that can’t enforce their rules beyond few villages isn’t a threat. Like you can’t actually fight with just guns and taliban isn’t known for their air-force or artillery or armor (or anything really except being regarded religious nuts).