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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 41–44.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Rafia Zakaria A new propaganda magazine unveiled this summer by the Pakistani Taliban targets an unexpected audience: women. Journalist Rafia Zakaria describes how the Taliban, who came to power on a promise to eliminate females from the public sphere, are now calling on girls and women to rebel...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 82–90.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Haq, an Afghan Pashtun leader in the anti-Taliban resistance. At his invitation, I was accompanying Haq to his meeting with northern Tajik Commander Ahmed Shah Masood to discuss a strategy to end the long Afghan war. Photo: PFC. Joshua Kruger We climbed into a waiting SUV, along with Haq’s...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 73–81.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Shaheen Buneri The changes began in July 2007 when Maulana Fazlullah, a 32-year-old lift operator turned Taliban commander, launched a pirate FM radio station to preach religious bigotry across the Swat Valley. Day after day, his inflammatory broadcasts discouraged girls’ education, called...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 31–37.
Published: 01 September 2013
... and intelligence presence in the region—they may well have prevented the violence and conflict that brought the Taliban to power in 1994. We now have a chance to avoid these mistakes, while also keeping Pakistan from falling into further disarray, thus protecting another critical interest for the United States...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 25–36.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., medical support, or combat reinforcement, which we would try to accommodate. Before the coalition could send anyone flying in to help, however, we had to determine what requests were authentic. From Farah in western Afghanistan, for instance, arrived a report of 500 Taliban insurgents at an election point...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 69–78.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., the fact remains that the Afghan Taliban have become largely independent of al-Qaida in recent years. In this respect, bin Laden’s passing hardly changes the reality on the ground in Afghanistan. The “Golden Hour”—the period between 2001, when the Taliban was initially ousted, and 2005, when the major...
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World Policy Journal (2006) 23 (1): 17–24.
Published: 01 March 2006
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A Glass Half Full, On the Titanic
Carl Robichaud
In June 2005, a U.S. infantry battalion tions in Afghanistan put it, “Considering
hunting for Taliban insurgents in the Zabol the prospects for the future of Afghanistan,
province of southern Afghanistan came upon using the ‘glass half...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 68–77.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., the camp is a freezing nightmare of poverty, misery, and death. Amongst the bitter and hungry, Taliban recruiters find easy pickings to join their radical insurgency. The ground sparkles with ice particles, formed around the mud—a perilous quagmire where the incautious slip or sink. The ice goes down...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 90–94.
Published: 01 March 2002
... brother gave water to the Mu occasionally surfaced in classrooms in Pak
jahidin istan and were sanctioned by the Taliban
D a l [is for] Religion (din). government in Afghanistan. Peshawar’s sec
Our religion is Islam. The Russians are the ondhand...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 81–89.
Published: 01 March 2002
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staging ground for the war against the were getting better.” The euphoria came to
Taliban regime and Osama bin Laden’s A1 an end in 1996, when a series of legislative
Qaeda forces. Khanabad is less than 100 acts put the brakes on private initiative.
miles north of Uzbekistan’s border...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 45–55.
Published: 01 March 2001
...— but on imported ideologies from
Thus the region’s rulers were suddenly com the Taliban in Afghanistan, the militant
pelled to fabricate a new identity for their madrassas (Islamic schools) of Pakistan, and
five ethnically diverse states— Kazakhstan, the extreme Wahabbi doctrine of Saudi
Kyrgyzstan...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 31–40.
Published: 01 March 2003
... Taliban, Pakistan tried to redress its insecu
in Kashmir, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Kyrgyz rity relative to India, curb Pashtun national
stan, and Uzbekistan. Networks of narcotics ism, and create a corridor for trade with
traffickers collaborating with armed groups, Central Asia.
link Afghan poppy...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 106–115.
Published: 01 December 2012
...-year-old female peace activist Malala Yousafzai was targeted and shot by Taliban gunmen, simply for wanting to go to school. Scores of young Pakistanis organized street protests, prayed, and held up posters for Malala with some young girls in Swat proclaiming, “Malala is our sister, and if terrorists...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 33–45.
Published: 01 December 2001
... 9 4 ) an d Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Y ale University Press, 2 0 0 0 ).
The New Struggle in Central Asia
A Primer for the Baffled
Ahmed R ashid
Central Asia today is a still-uncharted battle tively open society. State...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 93–104.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Taliban leader. Inside the dark station, the ranking officer, Amanullah Marwat, fielded calls and text messages on two cellphones. At first glance, Marwat’s pock-marked round cheeks, quick laugh, and standard-issue police officer’s paunch made him seem benign, avuncular even, but his eyes—dark...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 61–67.
Published: 01 December 2016
... longer than for a Syrian refugee. He’s also barred from enrolling in state-sponsored German integration and language courses; they’re for those who have received some form of government permission to stay. Hashemi fled his native Kabul, fearful that the Taliban would murder him for being an atheist...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., explores the sad underbelly of the Yemeni revolution—which could have an outcome even more tragic than Somalia just across the Red Sea. Then we examine Afghanistan and Pakistan from two different perspectives. First, there are the defenseless victims of the Taliban—the citizens of the Swat Valley...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2017
....” But it’s not just advocates of neoliberalism who invoke familial arguments to transform public policy. Columnist and author Rafia Zakaria returns to the pages of World Policy Journal to discuss the Pakistani Taliban’s first women’s magazine, Sunnat-e-Khaula . The underlying goal of its coverage, Zakaria...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (1): 113–115.
Published: 01 March 2001
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widely praised book, Taliban (Yale, 1999). He not only reported on Taliban’s military opera
tions but, as the citation related, he faced “serious hazards to his life” in meeting belliger
ents in a chaotic country. The award was presented in Lahore, and we add our own congratu
lations to a talented...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 37–50.
Published: 01 March 2002
... Muslim world.
The American military campaign against This strain of anti-Americanism in the
bin Laden, his infrastructure in Afghanistan, Saudi press manifested itself in a number of
and the Taliban regime that hosted him— a ways. Hostile articles reacting to American
perfectly...
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