Essays

On Exile, Moral Reckoning, and the Afghanistran’s Cosmopolitan Elite

The Mirror We Refuse to Hold There is a particular kind of comfort in waiting. For many of us — the Afghan professionals, civil society leaders, journalists, academics, and activists who left after August 2021 …

Why Pakistan Goes to War with the “Good Taliban”

Samir Mosaver Sonia Sekandari Before the tension between the Taliban and Pakistan flared up, Michael Kugelman, a leading expert on South Asia at the Atlantic Council, had warned that the crisis between the Taliban and …

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