Back to square one — a bid for peace in Afghanistan on February 9, 2019In October 2001, after the United States carried out heavy bombing raids on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda targets in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister, Haji Abdul Kabir, offered a “peace deal” to the US. He sent a message to Washington that the Taliban were ready to ‘discuss’ Osama Bin Laden and may surrender him […]