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Irredentist dreams

(Nybooks) Rashid: Pakistan could try and have Taliban retake Kabul, but other nations wouldn’t tolerate it, and it would give the Taliban a base to attack inside Pakistan.

Sub rosa South Asia

(FP) Attempting to get out of the bubble, Obama had a quiet D.C. dinner with Pakistan expert Ahmed Rashid (who flew in from Lahore), S. Asia expert Samantha Power and Iran scholar Haleh Esfandiari.