Special Assessment: Afghanistan
The military campaign to defeat the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan has been ongoing since the 2001 American-led invasion. In recent years, the Taliban has re-emerged as a Pashtun movement, based in southern Afghanistan but also spreading into Pakistan. Mullah Omar, the spiritual head of the Taliban in Afghanistan, has claimed that the efforts of the [...]
The Pakistani Double Game
The London School of Economics released a report early this past week alleging that the Pakistani intelligence agency, the Inter-Service Intelligence agency (ISI), not only funds and trains Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan but plays an active and official role in the Taliban’s executive war council. If this report is accurate, the Pakistani military already possesses [...]
