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Can the Taliban be trusted to keep their promises?

Can the Taliban be trusted to keep their promise of reasonable rule? Two experts weigh in

08/17/2021

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Can the Taliban be trusted to keep their promises?

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Can the Taliban be trusted to keep their promise of reasonable rule? Two experts weigh in

To make sense of the Taliban's plans for Afghanistan, Lisa Desjardins speaks to Ali Jalali, a former minister of the interior who served in the Afghan National Army. He's now a professor at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. And Torek Farhadi, an analyst and former advisor to the governor of Da Afghanistan Bank, ex-senior economic advisor to former Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

08/17/2021

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