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India-Pakistan
The resurrection of the TTP
2023-07-16
Very long. You’ll want a coffee or coffee-equivalent and a comfortable chair for this one, dear Reader. Possibly a snack, as well.
[Dawn] The threat of religious militancy is not going away any time soon; expecting a two-decade long conflict to be fixed with interventions spanning weeks or months is somewhat delusional.

By late 2020, as it became apparent that the US was certainly withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan, talk around the table of Pakistain’s security establishment and political decision-makers related to the consequences of the withdrawal and its possible aftermath. For over two decades, NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
members and their partner nations had held down the fort of peace in Afghanistan, with up to 130,000 troops deployed there at the height of the war.
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