Towards Af-Pak anarchy

An international conference in Bonn this week, attended by nearly 100 nations and international organisations, sought to create the conditions for an orderly Western military retreat from Afghanistan and ensuring the international community’s continued support to the government in Kabul after 2014. That the conference ended in a whimper, thanks to its boycott by Pakistan and the Taliban, is hardly surprising. Both the Bonn conference and the one in Istanbul that took place last month were based on the assumption that diplomacy can ensure a successful political transition in Afghanistan.

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