Is Afghanistan Backsliding?

Is Afghanistan Backsliding? : Parallels : NPR: 
At an Aug. 10 press conference and on Twitter, President Ghani directly blamed Pakistan for the carnage.
"We hoped for peace, but war is declared against us from Pak territory," he tweeted. "This in fact puts into a display a clear hostility against a neighbor." He called the violence "a turning point for Afghanistan."
But is it?