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Abdul Basit. Courtesy S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyand Technological University, Singapore
Life Under the Taliban: What Will It Look Like? September 04, 2021
Counter-terrorism expert Abdul Basit has spent almost two decades studying the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and ISIS in Afghanistan and beyond from his position as a research fellow at the Ragnatratum School of International Studies of NTM University in Singapore. He describes a Taliban that is more media-savvy than it was in 2001 and says that the Taliban 2.0 is “making all the right noises” about not erasing the advances of the last 20 years.

Basit analyzes the shadowy and rapidly changing relationships between the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and ISIS-K. He warns of a potential fragmenting of the Taliban that could result in new balances of power, and reminds us that “the people of Afghanistan want peace.”

Abdul Basit. Associate Research Fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Basit specializes in issues of politics, violence, religious extremism, terrorism, and security in South Asia. He has co-authored a book entitled Dynamics of Taliban Insurgency in FATA, published from Pakistan by the Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS).



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