February , 2009
Taliban Lessons Unlearnt
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It's ironic that the day Pakistan's government agreed to a deal to impose Shari'a in Swat and other parts came on the 20th anniversary of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Because there were early warnings and signals that the US and the world community ignored at their peril in 1989, and there are the same ominous signs that the world isn't acting on today either. In 1989- Washington was only too eager to hand over Afghanistan to the forces that gave rise to the Taliban and close the chapter on its own assistance to them against the Soviets- in 2009 that haste is being paid for by the entire world. In that sense, the imposition of Shari'a- is not just evidence of a creeping fundamentalism that has spread from Kabul to Peshawar- it must be seen as an important power shift in the region. In September 1996, the....
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Suhasini Haidar is the Deputy Foreign Editor and Prime-Time anchor for CNN-IBN, regularly anchoring its award-winning show India@9. She entered the world of journalism in 1994 with an internship at the CNN’s United Nations Bureau in New York. She worked with the CNN in New Delhi after that, as a producer and then as a correspondent until she moved to CNN-IBN in 2005. Suhasini regularly covers the sub-continent, frequently reporting from Pakistan. She has also traveled with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to cover his official visits to the US, France, Russia, NAM, SAARC and CHOGM and is the only journalist to have interviewed Singh, Mrs. Gursharan Kaur, and their daughters. Suhasini's also been in the field covering elections in Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir for CNN-IBN. She received her Bachelor's degree at Delhi University's Lady Shri Ram College and her Master's at Boston University's College of Communication. When not at work Suhasini turns off the TV and loves to read, swim and walk. When she is lucky, her two daughters, dogs and husband join in.
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