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Why the US should engage with Pakistan (Opinion)

The war in Afghanistan did not end last year with the NATO military withdrawal and the reemergence of the Taliban regime 2.0. Instead, it only entered a new phase and this fact is now becoming ever more evident to observers. Taliban is fast learning that running an insurgency and running an even vaguely functioning state are two entirely different things. The presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan acted as a glue to keep various factions of the Taliban together. But foreign forces are now gone, and so is that glue that kept Taliban together. Today Taliban are divided into several