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The Taliban and the miscalculation of reality
FO official says the Taliban’s rapid Afghan gains surprise Pakistan
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It is interesting to see the flip-flops of our Afghan policy. Now, as per a senior Foreign Office official (The Express Tribune, June 28, 2021), the “the Taliban’s rapid Afghan gains surprise Pakistan” and Pakistan is worried by “the lack of resistance or little resistance offered by the [300,000 strong] Afghan National Army (ANA)” and other security forces to the advancing Taliban.
Why do we deserve to die? Kabul s Hazaras bury their daughters
9 May, 2021 10:59 PM
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Many of the victims of the school bombing were buried on Martyrs Hill in Kabul on Sunday. Photo / Kiana Hayeri, The New York Times
Many of the victims of the school bombing were buried on Martyrs Hill in Kabul on Sunday. Photo / Kiana Hayeri, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Adam Nossiter
A bomb attack that killed scores of schoolgirls, members of a long-persecuted minority, offered still more evidence that Afghanistan may be on the verge of unravelling. One by one they brought the girls up the
âWhy Do We Deserve to Die?â Kabulâs Hazaras Bury Their Daughters.
A bomb attack that killed scores of schoolgirls, members of a long-persecuted minority, offered still more evidence that Afghanistan may be on the verge of unraveling.
Many of the victims of the school bombing were buried on Martyrs Hill in Kabul on Sunday.Credit.Kiana Hayeri for The New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan â One by one they brought the girls up the steep hill, shrouded bodies covered in a ceremonial prayer cloth, the pallbearers staring into the distance. Shouted prayers for the dead broke the silence.
The bodies kept coming and the gravediggers stayed busy, straining in the hot sun. The ceaseless rhythm was grim proof of the preceding dayâs news: Saturday afternoonâs triple bombing at a local school had been an absolute massacre, targeting girls. There was barely room atop the steeply pitched hill for all the new graves.
Daily Times
April 20, 2021
On April 14, US President Joe Biden announced that all his country’s troops would leave Afghanistan by September 11, 2021; and not by May 1, as pledged by the former White House administration. Indeed, Biden claimed that the US had achieved its objectives in Afghanistan, saying: “We went to Afghanistan in 2001 to root out Al Qaeda, to prevent future terrorist attacks against the United States planned from Afghanistan. We accomplished that objective”.
Yet ground realities in Afghanistan contradict Biden’s talk of success. After all, there are reports of a Taliban-Al Qaeda nexus. Back in October of last year, Edmund Fitton-Brown, co-ordinator of the UN’s Monitoring Team on the Islamic State, Al Qaeda and the Taliban, confirmed as much to the BBC, noting that Al Qaeda was “heavily embedded” within the Taliban in Afghanistan. In addition, that same month saw Afghan Special Forces kill top Al Qaeda chief Husam Abd al-Rauf (Abu Muhsin al-Masri) i