Afghan War End Game

Re: Pak US relationship - Afghan War End Game

You are yourself from Mardan, how can you talk about “current day Afghanistan”? What is your basis of this conclusion? Majority of Afghanistan has been under Taliban control, I don’t see how there will be any political/economic or social sector transformation, unless you want to give credit to Taliban for that. As for “majority of Afghans” not liking Taliban, I don’t see how that can be true, warlords joined Taliban when they saw no other power who could beat Taliban but now they do see US/NATO who can help them take over Afghanistan, so why those warlords do not join US/NATO? When they do join US/NATO then Taliban will automatically be a non-existent entity. Its not like Taliban army is/was 2-5 million strong.

There is Pakistan more than KP, FATA and Baluchistan where they can easily travel without an issue. BTW the “wars” in those areas are not engulfing 100% of those areas, whenever they want to go they can go, its only fraction of areas which are more unpredictable than others.

But we don’t see “warlords”, armed gangs taking over the streets either, much of the area is under writ of Pakistan government as much as you hate it but that is truth.