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Pakistan's ties to Taliban draw scrutiny

Sibylle Licht
October 5, 2021

Pakistan has long maintained ties with the Taliban. Some of the Taliban's new government ministers were educated in religious universities there. Now there are claims Pakistani intelligence helped the Taliban consolidate its hold over Afghanistan.

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