Wounded Sovereignty: Uncertain future as Pakistan goes broke

Wounded Sovereignty: Uncertain future as Pakistan goes broke

Uncertain future as Pakistan goes broke

By G Parthasarathy

There can obviously be no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan. But this does not mean that the Taliban and its ISI mentors should be led to believe that the Taliban could return to power. Mr Karzai does have members of the Hizb-e-Islami led by ISI-backed Gulbuddin Hekmatyar holding high positions in the Afghan Government. But they have to function within the framework of Afghanistan's democratic Constitution. But a return of the exclusively Pashtun Taliban would be a recipe for not only an ethnic division of a country where 56 per cent of the population is not Pashtun, but also return to an era where the terrorist groups across the world found haven in Afghanistan.

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