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 Report
The Other Guy's Endgame - Part I
by Wajahat S
Khan
Wajahat Khan reports on
counter-narratives of Afghanistan's Long War from
Kabul, Badakshan, Wardak, Brussels and Islamabad, as
the region prepares for NATO's 2014 drawdown... read
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 Analysis
The mystery of what Pakistan wants
by Khaled Ahmed
Pakistan can certainly spoil an emerging solution in
Afghanistan, but it cannot coherently think of a
solution on its own...
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 Comment
Realpolitik
by Aparna Pande
Richard Holbrooke was given
the unenviable job of trying to build a strategic
partnership with Pakistan and Afghanistan; Marc
Grossman is tasked with a more limited engagement... read
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Comment
Taliban folklore in Pakistani media
by Abbas Daiyar
Afghans do not see the Taliban as a nationalist
movement based on the Pashtunwali code, but
influenced by Deobandi madrassas in Pakistan...
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Comment
Taliban and the Pashtun identity
by Imtiaz Gul
and Nabila Jaffar
Pashtuns - the largest ethnic
group in Afghanistan and the second largest in
Pakistan - have recently been stereotyped as
socially ultra-conservative, religiously radical,
and politically allied... read
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