In the Land of Taliban


A well-researched article about the resurgence of Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan's "double game" in this episode of "Great Game".


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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/magazine/22afghanistan.html?pagewanted=all

In many ways, Pakistani policy is already looking beyond both Karzai and the Americans; they believe it is prudent to imagine a future with neither. That future will be shaped by the past: the past with India, the past with the Soviet Union, the past with America. For Pakistan’s hard-liners, at least, the obvious choice was to take their assets off the shelf and restart the jihad.