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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Ten year on since its deliverance from the vicious clutch of the obscurantist Taliban, Afghainstan today is bestest by problems created and coumpounded by a largely unsuccessful US-led military campaign. The civilian population is largely alienated by wanton deaths of innocents is misdirected NATO ground assaults, aerial bombardments, and drone attacks. Also saddled with a decade-old regime largely confined to urban centres, President Hamid Harzai is demoralized not only by his failure to build a domestic support base but also by his complete disenchantment with the United States and other Western allies, which has led to his subsequent and desparate search for allies among the Taliban themselves. Meanwhile, both Pakistan on the eastern front and Iran on the Western front brazenly continue to play their own games by promoting proxies within the indigenous fundamentalist forces. Besides, drug trafficking and corruption, among a host of other problems, continue to defy solutions. By no means, a beguiling picture that the South Asian country today presents to the world.
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