June 29, 2021
The writer is Dawn’s correspondent in Delhi. LOOK at it dispassionately. The world, led by the United States, has agreed to accept the deeply misogynistic Taliban as the next rulers in Afghanistan, reneging on lofty promises made to Afghan womenfolk as well as the country’s ethnic minorities. On what grounds then can one expect a different yardstick from the self-proclaimed guardians of democracies for other countries, for example, India, or even Pakistan? So many of our friends in Pakistan...