A recent (June 30-July 2) mass meeting (or “loya jirga”) of more than 4,000 Afghan clerics and tribal elders in Kabul ended with the participants endorsing the policies of the IEA (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) or the 2021 Taliban, governme
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AFGHANISTAN: Who Is In, Who Is Out April 6, 2021: Pakistan, Iran, India, China and Central Asian nations all have different plans for handling another Taliban attempt to take control of the entire country. Pakistan believes they still have sufficient clout to compel the Taliban to follow orders. One aspect of this is Pakistan spending a lot of money to reinforce border security with Afghanistan, making everyone more dependent on the few legal crossing points. These crossings are based on a good road and staffed with border guards and customs officials who enforce whatever the current rules are about who or what can go either way and how much you have to pay, legally or illegally. The Iran border is even more dangerous if the Taliban try to take control of western Afghanistan or continue attacking Shia Afghans. Iran is the largest and most powerful Shia majority nation in the world and takes that status very seriously and violently when S