By Arun Anand This is the 25th part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at [email protected]. Here is the 25th part- Hamid Karzai was the blue-eyed boy for the US when he took over …

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By Arun Anand This is the 24th part of the series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at [email protected]. Here is the 24th part- It didn’t take too long for Taliban to regroup and make a comeback. Within …

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By Arun Anand This is the 23rd part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at [email protected]. Here is the 23rd part- By late 2002, the Taliban had regrouped and announced its comeback through the …

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By Arun Anand This the 22nd part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at [email protected]. Here is the 22nd part- Hamid Karzai was not a bad choice to lead Afghanistan but he had too …

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By Arun Anand This is the 21st part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at [email protected]. Here is the 21st part- The Pakistan spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) played a critical role in enabling …

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By Arun Anand This is the 20th part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at [email protected]. Here is the 20th part- The road to revival of Taliban owes its birth and rapid progress to …

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By Arun Anand This is the 19th part of the series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at [email protected]. Here is the 19th part- Hamid Karzai, who was chosen as the interim leader and later on full time …

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By Arun Anand This is 18th part of the series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at [email protected]. Here is the 18th part- As Taliban got routed within few weeks of the US and its allies’ invasion of …

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By Arun Anand This is 17th part of the series on Taliban. You can share your feedback at [email protected]. Here is the 17th part- In the aftermath of Al-Qaeda attack in United States on 11 September, 2011(commonly known as ‘9/11’), …

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By Arun Anand Taliban has been created and mentored by Pakistan’s spy agency Inter Services Intelligence. We have talked about a clandestine unit ‘Directorate S’ earlier in brief. Here we would try to have a more detailed look at the …

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By Arun Anand This is 15th part of the series on ‘The Taliban Story’. You can share your feedback at [email protected]. Here is the 15th part: Directorate S is a secret unit of the Pakistan’s spy agency ISI. It played …

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By Arun Anand This is 14th part of our series on ‘The Taliban Story’. You can share your feedback at [email protected]. Here is the 14th part The irony couldn’t have been lost. On the morning of September 11, 2001, when …

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