EA on India Ahead TV: Is There A “Moderate” Taliban?

Posted by Scott Lucas | Aug 19, 2021 | 0

Taliban fighters along the roadside in KabuL, Afghanistan, August 16, 2021 (AFP)

I joined a panel on India Ahead News on Wednesday to consider and take apart the notion of a “moderate” Taliban, following the group’s takeover of almost all of Afghanistan, and assess the responses of different actors — from Pakistan to India to China to the UK — to its rise.

The other participants are General V.P. Malik, former Chief of Army Staff in India; former Indian diplomats Veena Sukri and Leela Ponappa; journalist Fred Weir; and Pramit Pal Chaudhuri of the Hindustan Times. The host is Bhupendra Chaubey.

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Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.

EA on India Ahead TV: Is There A “Moderate” Taliban?

Taliban fighters along the roadside in KabuL, Afghanistan, August 16, 2021 (AFP)

I joined a panel on India Ahead News on Wednesday to consider and take apart the notion of a “moderate” Taliban, following the group’s takeover of almost all of Afghanistan, and assess the responses of different actors — from Pakistan to India to China to the UK — to its rise.

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