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Who will blink first? Recognising the Taliban in Afghanistan
ByCharlie Portlock 21 February 202427 February 2024

Sophie Ibbotson is the Chairman of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs and a consultant on economic development and water conflict in Central Asia and Afghanistan. My prediction for 2024 is that the Taliban will soon be given diplomatic recognition as the official government of Afghanistan. Embassies and consulates will start to reopen, sanctions will…

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The Afghanistan File: Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan
ByMichael Ryder 23 September 202124 September 2021

The Hugh Leach Memorial Lecture
His Royal Highness Prince Turki Alfaisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 22 September 2021, 14:00

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The Peshawar School Attack
ByThe Editor 30 December 2014

Dr Robin Edward Poulton, an RSAA member who has lived amongst Afghan villagers, offers a heartfelt response to the recent Taliban attack on the Peshawar Army Public School in Pakistan: Taliban butchers are Pashtun cowards by Robin Edward Poulton[i] If you sit of an evening beside a fire in the Pashtun heartlands, you will hear…

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