Taliban
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Fight Taliban Arundhati Roy style
An Arundhati Roy interview extract likening Afghanistan, Waziristan, India’s North-East and the ‘Red Corridor’ to tribal uprisings against a corporate attack, radical Islamist in one place and radical Left in…
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Freedom fighters
On reports that insurgents cut off the inked fingers of 11 voters in Herat, the poster mocks admirers of Taliban ‘freedom fighters’ who blame the West, with a news extract…
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Pakistan Predictions 2014?
Adding a third instalment of Pakistan predictions, prompted by Ahsan Butt’s piece on a Taliban victory, the author recalls his 2012 forecasts of mutually assured corruption among army, politicians and…
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USA and Taliban part as (future) friends
On the Bergdahl prisoner exchange with the Taliban, the poster argues the American habit of treating war as business, with no lasting bitterness, points to a US withdrawal from the…
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Cold war alliance restored in Afghanistan
A short comment, with quoted news extracts, arguing that Afghan requests for arms from India and Russia complete rival alliances (Russia, India and Iran against Saudi Arabia, the GCC and…
