Ever since the Americans attacked and occupied Afghanistan in 2001, Pakistain has teetered on the edge of Washington’s tolerance for what it sees as our double-faced policy of running with the hares and hunting with the hounds. Time and again, policymakers in Islamabad and GHQ have been exhorted publicly and privately to stop supporting and sheltering the Afghan Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
and the Haqqani network
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