A few eternal verities pock-mark all the flux in Afghanistan. Policy has to navigate around them.
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The terms of engagement that Imran Khan will offer will be no different from those of the past: dialogue under the shadow of calibrated terrorism and greater focus on issue resolution than building co-operative mechanisms through trade and connectivity.
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Bhutto’s character traits, his late political life as PM, his controversial death...all that is brillianty lit in this biography, but it’s silent on his deleterious role in the 1971 crisis
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From Gen Zia’s unchecked Islamisation to drug abuse and a rampant gun culture, Pakistan was deeply affected by USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan
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More than Mortimer Durand’s arbitrary line that sliced the Pashtun homeland, this valuable book, anti-colonial in tone, is an account of the Great Game
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Naming Balochistan, PoK and Gilgit is a bold new move
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