{"id":7768,"date":"2024-04-03T06:58:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T06:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=7768"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:34:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:34:05","slug":"pakistans-moderate-taliban-strategy-wont-hold-up-for-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=7768","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s \u201cModerate Taliban\u201d Strategy Won\u2019t Hold Up\u2014For Anyone"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author<\/strong>: Aqil Shah<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>

Affiliation: <\/strong>University of Oklahoma<\/a>, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (visiting scholar)<\/p>

Organization \/Publisher:<\/strong> Carnegie Endowment for International Peace <\/a>\u00a0<\/p>

Date\/Place:<\/strong> September, 30 2021\/USA\u00a0<\/p>

Type of Literature:<\/strong> Article\u00a0<\/p>

Word Count: <\/strong>1897<\/p>

Link: <\/strong>https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/2021\/09\/30\/pakistan-s-moderate-taliban-strategy-won-t-hold-up-for-anyone-pub-85462<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

Keywords: <\/em><\/strong>Moderate Taliban Strategy, Al Qaeda, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Terrorist, Pakistan<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>

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Brief:<\/strong><\/p>

This analysis questions Pakistan\u2019s \u201cModerate Taliban Strategy\u201d of restraining egregiousness of Taliban rule. The author argues that the newness of the Taliban is contradicting because they have violated the promises with the international community.\u00a0 The author claims that the creation of an inclusive government is incompatible with a centralized leadership with religious and political authority held by an appointed amir al-mu\u2019minin (commander of the faithful). The interim government comprises hardliners, political and military leaders, and individuals on various blacklists of international terrorists. The Acting Prime Minister Mullah Hasan Akhund is on a UN sanctions list, and Sirajuddin Haqqani\u2014a globally designated terrorist and the head of the infamous Haqqani faction of the Taliban\u2014is appointed to head the Ministry of Interior.\u00a0 Some media has reported civilian executions by the Taliban in the Panjshir Valley, the center of anti-Taliban resistance, including the execution of resistance leader and former vice president Amrullah Saleh\u2019s brother. The relationship with the Islamic State in the Khorasan (ISIS-K) is confrontational, which is complicated by the Taliban\u2019s\u00a0 long-standing ties to Al-Qaeda.\u00a0 The US intelligence assesses that the Taliban will not ditch Al-Qaeda or its other \u201cjihadist\u201d allies\u2014no matter what the US wants it to do. The Pakistani civil and military leadership has repeatedly urged the international community to engage with the Taliban government and unfreeze Afghanistan\u2019s foreign exchange reserves to incentivize better behavior by the Taliban. The Taliban\u2019s capture of Kabul has encouraged the Pashtun militant group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). However, Pakistani officials have enlisted the Taliban\u2019s help to negotiate a peace deal and offered amnesty to disarm their fighters and accept the Pakistani constitution as the supreme law of the land\u2014an offer the TTP has prior rejected. The author concludes that Pakistan\u2019s moderate Taliban narrative is unlikely to stick because the Taliban is not interested in power-sharing or protecting human rights. It will most likely continue to rule in the only way it knows how: repression.<\/p>

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By: Razia Wadood, CIGA Senior Research Associate<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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