Despite the US and NATO spending billions of dollars to prepare security forces in Afghanistan over nearly two decades, the Taliban have captured almost every part of the country within a week. At present, the US is evacuating the rest of its citizens in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the country’s President Ashraf Ghani fled to Tajikistan. The process of transfer of power is going on in the country. It is not clear when this will happen and who among the Taliban was negotiating.
The Wire’s Arfa Khanum Sherwani speaks with Manoj Joshi of the Observer Research Foundation in Delhi, former Indian ambassador to the US Meera Shankar, Ghazala Wahab of FORCE magazine in Delhi and Fahd Husain, resident editor of Dawn in Islamabad, to understand the situation.