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Why ceasfire at key Pak-Afghan border crossing on Durand Line is unlikely to last long
ThePrint Explorer looks at how Imperial Britain came about with Durand Line & how it has remained a bone of contention ...
Boston Review6dOpinion
Portrait of a Foreign Policy Failure
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Pakistan Is Trying to Integrate the ‘Most Dangerous Place’ on Earth. It’s Failing.
The country’s former tribal areas bordering Afghanistan are plagued by escalating militancy, leading to widespread ...
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The US lifts bounties on senior Taliban officials, including Sirajuddin Haqqani, says Kabul
The U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western ...
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The US lifts bounties on senior Taliban officials, including Sirajuddin Haqqani, says Kabul
Those were his first trips abroad since the Taliban takeover. Ibraheem Bahiss, a senior analyst with International Crisis Group’s Asia program, said the removal of the bounties was a win for ...
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UNICEF calls on the Taliban to lift ban on girls’ education as new school year begins in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency on Saturday urged Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to immediately lift a lingering ban on girls’ education to save the future of millions who have ...
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Taliban frees an American man who was abducted while traveling in Afghanistan more than 2 years ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban in a deal with the Trump ...
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Religious Freedom in Afghanistan: Three Years After the Taliban Takeover
The human rights of religious minorities and others who do not conform to the interpretation of Islam prescribed by the Taliban are under serious threat. The Taliban follow an ultra-conservative ...
Pakistani security forces kill 16 militants attempting to cross border from Afghanistan
Pakistan said its security forces killed 16 militants in a remote northwestern border area as they tried to enter the country from neighboring Afghanistan.