New regime forces exodus of journalists from Afghanistan where a free press was one of the few real gains of Western occupation. Butler fears that, like Myanmar, the future of Afghanistan’s media is “bleak”, but he understands why so many journalists left both the countries, operating in exile. We have so many examples that the Taliban didn’t and still don’t …
Where is Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the amir ul momineen, or commander of the faithful, chief of the Taliban? Pakistan controls the Haqqani Network and may push its case through Pakistan-based factions of the Taliban but for full control of the process of installation of the Islamic Emirate government in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s ISI wants total control of all the factions of …
