Policy risks rise amid elite bargaining in Afghanistan
Afghanistan's power-sharing deal is double-edged, promising short-term stability at the expense of grave long-term risks
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- Final result?
- Beyond the power-sharing agreement
- Long-term risks
- Economic decline
- Turf wars
- Parliamentary illegitimacy
- Tackling the Taliban
- Islamic State threat?
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_350.jpg "US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks next to Afghan presidential candidates Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)")