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Fraught US-Afghanistan peace plan may depend on New Delhi putting muscle where its mouth is

Fraught US-Afghanistan peace plan may depend on New Delhi putting muscle where its mouth is Arun Sreenivasan © Arun Sreenivasan Fraught US-Afghanistan peace plan may depend on New Delhi putting muscle where its mouth is The mists turned red as the shattered remnants of the East India Company’s armies fled Afghanistan across the snows of the Hindu Kush. Far from his home in Tiloi, near Amethi, Havildar Sitaram chronicled the downfall. “What dreadful signs I saw along the road legs and arms protruding through the snow, Europeans and Hindoostanees half-buried, horses and camels all dead”, he wrote of the winter of 1842. “We went on fighting, and losing men at every step: we were attacked in front, in the rear, and from the tops of the hills: in truth, it was hell itself”.

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Same old, same old: New US government likely to sing old tunes on Afghanistan and Pakistan

Same old, same old: New US government likely to sing old tunes on Afghanistan and Pakistan Arun Sreenivasan © Shubhangi Mishra Same old, same old: New US government likely to sing old tunes on Afghanistan and Pakistan At the high noon of the jihad in Afghanistan, as the Soviet Union prepared to pull its battered armies back home, the author of that long war sat down to script its coda. “The Soviets were unable to resist pressure to quit Afghanistan, but they will now seek other means to control some or all of that country,” said Pakistan’s military chief, General Akhtar Abdul Rehman Khan, his thinking recorded in a secret diplomatic cable from 1988. The Soviets would now, he went on, try to divide the Afghan jihad, thus allowing President Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai to hang on. Failing that, the Soviets would partition the country on ethnic lines.

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