To Believe Or Not To Believe The Taliban; Pakistan And Its ‘Shackles Of Slavery’

NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Dr Aparna Pande, Director of Hudson Institute’s Initiative on the Future of India and South Asia and Author, ‘Making India Great: The Promise of a Reluctant Global Power’ and Sushant Sareen, Senior Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, in analysis with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi.

The panel discusses the Taliban in ruling mode in Afghanistan, with reports of people being hunted door-to-door whether pronouncements of the the Emirate 2.0 mirror action on the ground, links to other terrorist groups, the level of control Pakistan’s ISI has, India’s reactions in what is another long game, China and Russia’s engagement and if the U.S. and the international community have any levers left in the preset, new reality in Afghanistan.