Qatar or Pakistan: Who will control the Taliban?
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Over the past decade, Qatar has emerged as an effective interlocutor between the West and the Taliban. By brokering peace negotiations in Doha, Qatar paved the way for the American withdrawal and the terror group's return to power.
On the other hand, Pakistan caused the birth of Taliban’s, midwifed by Islamabad’s intelligence services, in the early 1990s. After the defeat of the Taliban in 2001, Pakistan provided the safe havens for them to regroup, rearm and return to the fray. Now, the two countries are in a pitched battle for influence over the terror group ruling in Kabul.
Although the terror group is headed by a supreme leader, Habitullah Akhundzada, it is not a monolith. Qatar is aligned with the faction led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who ...