The case of Afghanistan’s future T.C.A. Raghavan | | Published 15.01.21, 12:01 AM
The drama at the Capitol in Washington obscured the resumption of the intra-Afghan dialogue with the second round between the Taliban and the government of Afghanistan beginning last week. The first round extended for some three months and ended in December with an agreement on the ‘Rules of Procedure’ and an exchange of issues that each side wanted the talks to focus on.
How the first round is evaluated in terms of success or failure depends largely on where you stand on what is happening in Afghanistan today. For some, the intra-Afghan process is no more than a sideshow to the main event what the United States of America will do in the coming months given that it has to have closure on its longest-ever military intervention. For o