Obaidullah Baheer

Refusing to see insurgencies’ roots, using ‘terrorism’ labels, and scapegoating neighbours are not winning strategies.

The Taliban does not want to share power with warlords and corrupt former officials and neither do Afghans.

Ordinary Afghans are not responsible for the perceived faults of a government they did not elect.

A recent meeting in Doha shows that a major barrier to US-Taliban cooperation may have been surmounted.

Inclusivity is important, but more important is not to bring back corrupt officials from the previous government.

Women, the Hazara minority and all political opposition have been excluded from the Taliban’s new administration.