Author: Owais Tohid

The rethinking has created ripples. It’s made the Taliban jittery. It puts Pakistan in an awkward position since it was a facilitator of the peace process. Afghan-American Zalmay Khalilzad, who brokered the deal for the Trump administration, is now balancing on a knife’s edge.

I was in the Taliban headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan when the hilly region of Bamiyan fell to them in the