The Afghanistan Impasse

The New York Review of Books by Ahmed Rashid | Oct. 15, 2009 (Opinion)

Pakistan's safe havens for the Afghan Taliban have been to a large extent responsible for their revival and growing dominance across Afghanistan and for the rising death toll among NATO forces. But the Taliban were not the major cause of the political crisis that enveloped Afghanistan after the August 20 presidential elections. Full Story »

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