On Sept. 12, the Taliban and an Afghan delegation embarked on complex peace talks. More than a month later, the talks are slow moving and violence at home has not abated, but both sides remain at the table.
The answer to many of these questions rests on the shoulders of the two longtime rivals, Ghani and Abdullah.
By contrast, Abdullah, who was born to a Tajik mother and a Pashtun father — the two dominant and sometimes warring Afghan ethnic groups — has lived through most of the conflict in Afghanistan. He has dark bushy eyebrows and a penchant for Western suits, as well as a reputation for being conciliatory but having a vision that he struggles to communicate.
These men pose a threat to those in power — particularly Ghani. And their rhetoric will no doubt alarm the president and his supporters. What is clear is that the Taliban direct their ire most fervently at the president, painting him as an“He is even worse than the Americans and there is no way we can settle our issues with him peacefully,” a senior Taliban leader in Afghanistan’s Helmand province said on condition of anonymity.Born to an influential family from Afghanistan’s dominant Pashtun ethnicity in 1949, Ghani excelled from the first.
Bulliet said Ghani’s dissertation, which examined the ungovernability of Afghanistan largely from the point of view of its political economy, was “remarkable.” His work researching every district meant he had an understanding of the country’s overall structure, putting him in an usual situation among Afghan political and military figures, who tend to be regionalists, Bulliet said.
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