Let us face the facts; the Taliban want a military solution for the simple reason that the US-led coalition has recognized the locus of the Taliban without conditions. Now, those insisting that the Taliban may agree to come to terms with the…

A scrimmage in a border station, A canter down some dark defile, Two thousand pounds of education, Drops to a ten rupee Jezail…. Strike hard who cares, The odds are on the cheaper man. (Rudyard Kipling) Afghanistan is a place where the…

There is a strong feeling of deja vu about Afghanistan in the air. The environment, despite the passage of two decades, is eerily reminiscent of the disorder of the early nineties when a power vacuum led to a civil war in all…