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Bedlam in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Posted By Brahma Chellaney on May 30, 2023 @ 11:00
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[1] committing atrocities: https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/10/22/afghanistan-taliban-forcibly-evict-minority-shia
[2] assessment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/22/afghanistan-terrorism-leaked-documents/
[3] safe haven: https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/atf/cf/%7B65BFCF9B-6D27-4E9C-8CD3-CF6E4FF96FF9%7D/S%202022%20547.pdf
[4] who’s who: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-narco-terrorist-taliban/
[5] killed: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/08/01/remarks-by-president-biden-on-a-successful-counterterrorism-operation-in-afghanistan/
[6] alliance: https://www.fdd.org/in_the_news/2021/09/10/twenty-years-after-911-taliban-and-al-qaeda-remain-inseparable/
[7] billions of dollars’ worth: https://web.archive.org/web/20201220145943/https:/www.sigar.mil/pdf/audits/SIGAR-21-11-AR.pdf
[8] strategically valuable: https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Risch%20Afghanistan%20Report%202022.pdf
[9] air force: https://media.defense.gov/2022/May/17/2002998795/-1/-1/1/LEAD%20INSPECTOR%20GENERAL%20FOR%20OPERATION%20FREEDOM%E2%80%99S%20SENTINEL%20AND%20OPERATION%20ENDURING%20SENTINEL%20-%20JANUARY%201,%202022%20%E2%80%93%20MARCH%2031,%202022.PDF
[10] 12-page document: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/US-Withdrawal-from-Afghanistan.pdf
[11] overruling: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/pax-americana-died-in-kabul/
[12] longstanding partnership: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/25/opinion/pakistan-biden-khan.html
[13] rogue: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26202023
[14] use terrorism: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-embraces-pakistan-terrorist-ties-by-brahma-chellaney-2022-09
[15] unholy alliance: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/pakistan-india-conflict-taliban-terrorism-by-brahma-chellaney-2019-03
[16] stave off debt default: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2022/08/29/pr22293-imf-executive-board-completes-reviews-of-extended-fund-facility-pakistan
[17] deal: https://www.dsca.mil/press-media/major-arms-sales/pakistan-f-16-case-sustainment
[18] get off: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/21/must-stay-on-course-pakistan-is-removed-from-fatf-gray-list#:~:text=Pakistan%20has%20been%20on%20the,day%20meeting%20in%20Paris%2C%20France.
[19] pliant: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/24/opinion/pakistan-imran-khan-assassination-attempt.html
[20] de facto leadership: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/south-asia-s-false-spring-2012-02
[21] direct challenge: https://www.voanews.com/a/arrest-of-pakistan-s-former-prime-minister-plunges-country-further-into-political-chaos-/7085980.html
[22] erupted: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/12/why-are-imran-khans-supporters-angry-with-pakistans-military
[23] stormed: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/world/asia/pakistan-military-protests.html
[24] kept afloat: https://www.wsj.com/articles/pakistans-economy-is-reeling-from-a-year-of-political-turmoil-that-shows-no-sign-of-abating-9af92cd5?st=hqlatjikjtp31eg
[25] restart: https://www.wsj.com/articles/pakistan-works-to-revive-imf-bailout-11673291084?mod=article_inline
[26] mass arrests: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/05/20/pakistan-mass-arrests-target-political-opposition
[27] announcing: https://www.arabnews.pk/node/2307106/pakistan
[28] erupt into civil war: https://www.dawn.com/news/1753072
[29] hub of terrorism: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/pakistan-state-sponsored-terrorism-by-brahma-chellaney-2016-10