The opening of trade routes would encourage Central Asian nations to cooperate as economic stakeholders and not rivals.
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When US troops withdraw from Afghanistan, is a 19th century tribal solution the only option?
The release of five Taliban leaders from Guantanamo raises pertinent questions about the US resolve to ‘fight terror’.
Coalition forces’ fundamental error was their failure to engage the tribes and reinstate military conscription.
