...the Pashtun equivalent of men...Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi had a detailed meeting with Pakistain’s former army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa before asking India to send back its diplomats and technical staff to Kabul, says a new book on Afghanistan’s de facto rulers.
The Return of the Taliban reveals "the pivotal decisions leading to the Taliban’s seizure of power" and describes "how as rulers they struggle to reconcile pressures for transition with their rigid ideology", said Marvin G. Weinbaum, the senior scholar of South Asian affairs in Washington.