Saeed Naqvi, Distinguished Fellow at ORF, recently journeyed across Afghanistan where he met scores of political leaders, Taleban, US officials, filmmakers, journalists, NGOs, religious leaders and ordinary Afghans. The result is an insightful document on Afghanistan at the crossroads. Do Americans have an Endgame planned? Or, more important, can a superpower in a theatre of strategic importance, have a linear exit plan when multiple strategic options present themselves? Is Pakistan, strapped to a nuclear weapon, hanging from the precipice? Does Pakistan's predicament operate as a sort of blackmail? Are there differences within the US- led alliance? Does the endgame have to be dramatic exit or controlled chaos? Saeed Naqvi raises some of these questions and attempts to answer them. Some questions, of course, are inherently shy of answers because history in the making is, for that moment, shy of transparency.
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