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The Taliban Story: Playing both sides: How Pakistan enabled revival of Taliban (Part 21)

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 …

The Taliban Story: Beginning of the US misadventure: laying the ground for revival of Taliban (Part 20)

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 …

The Taliban Story: Hamid Karzai: The Man of many shades who lead Afghanistan post-Taliban (Part 19)

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 …

The Taliban Story: How winners took it all and shaped post-Taliban regime (Part 18)

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 …

The Taliban Story: How Operation Enduring Freedom routed earlier Taliban regime (Part17)

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’), …

The Taliban Story: A brief history of troublemaker ISI (Part16)

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 …

The Taliban Story: Directorate S: The Pakistani Deep State (Part 15)

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 …

The Taliban Story (Part 14): CIA and ISI-A Failed Marriage

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 …

The Taliban Story (Part13): Taliban and ISI: Cloak and Dagger

By Arun Anand This is the 13th part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban Story’ that we bring to our readers. You can share your feedback at [email protected]. Here is the 13th part: Pakistan’s Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) had …

The Taliban Story: Life with Taliban: An insider’s first-hand account (Part 12)

By Arun Anand This is the 12th part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban Story’ that we bring to our readers. You can share your feedback at [email protected]. Here is the 12th part: Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef was born …

The Taliban Story: Ghost Wars: CIA, Taliban and Bin Laden (Part 11)

By Arun Anand- This is the 11th part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban Story’ that we bring to our readers. You can share your feedback at [email protected]. Here is the 11th part: Ahmed Shah Massoud, the legendary military …

The Taliban Story: Taliban and Al Qaeda: Two sides of the same coin (Part 10)

By Arun Anand- This is the 10th part of the ‘Taliban Story’, a 30-part series that we bring to our readers. The feedback can be shared at [email protected]. Here is the 10th part- The Taliban’s insurgency in Afghanistan after 2001 …

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