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After the September attacks in 2001, international strategic politics wore a new garb on an infected termite structure. Under the guise of War on Terror, securing and upholding the tenets of democracy, governments were threatened, countries targeted and labelled, alliances created, covert and overt attacks carried out, and after more than a decade, the world transformed into a more dangerous place than it was before. Not learning from the past, the US and its allies took the task of taming countries that either followed their dictates or broke off from their traditional Western masters. This paper will assess the impact that would get reflected in the ground level with the change of US strategy in the South Asian region in general and Afghanistan significantly when world analysts predict the decline of US strategic prominence on the world stage forthcoming years. To what extent the two nuclear power neighbouring states India and Pakistan will play a significant role to balance the region as well as stabilising or destabilising Afghanistan.