The Afghan gauntlet

Pakistan’s Afghan policy — an endeavour spanning the more than forty years since the Soviet int­ervention in Afghanis­tan — of supporting a motley crew of local, Afghan and international jihadis in pursuance of its and Wes­­tern allies’ strategic goals, has now come full circle. The relationship betw­e­­en the two western neighbours stand ruptured and completely collapsed; the second such moment, perhaps, after the 1960s when the Afghans invaded Bajaur and Tirah in the Khyber tribal region. T...

By none@none.com (Ismail Khan)