Pakistan will struggle to sustain its 'Afghan policy'
India and China will pull Pakistan's Afghan policy in opposite directions as NATO forces depart
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- Abdullah
- Ghani
- Taliban: strong and recalcitrant
- Washington leans on Pakistan
- Indirect pressure
- Direct levers
- Chinese pressure
- Pakistan's strategy
- Illusion of control?
- Indian considerations
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_350.jpg "Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and Afghanistan's Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah take the oath during their inauguration in Kabul (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)")