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Insight South Asia | ‘Haqqani Killing Major Blow to Taliban’: Rana Banerji

Watch Amit Baruah in conversation with Rana Banerji, former head of the Pakistan/Afghanistan Desk R&AW.
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The Taliban is the same “animal”, Rana Banerji, former Head of the Pakistan/Afghanistan Desk at the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW), tells Amit Baruah when asked if the Taliban had changed since first taking power in 1996. The Taliban staged a return to power in 2021 after the Americans quit the country in a rush.

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