A donkey can't help but bray. Taliban will be Taliban as soon as international media leaves. Why do you think the Afghans are clamoring to leave? I mean throwing their babies across fences - how desperate does a parent have to be to do that?
Surprising. Maybe it is to convey some kind of message that Pak doesn't have much to do with the Taliban. After all Taliban is still a proscribed UN terror entity and Pakistan, the refuge of Osama is on FATF grey list for funding terror.
While I wouldn't call it a habit based on statistics, countries like India do have a legacy of female infanticide and later foeticide but there are laws against it and except for some backward states in the North which form part of the Indus River system, the sex ratio is not as skewed.
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Of course each state does have to find its own path. But in an increasingly connected world, countries can't operate in silos. However reluctant, the Commonwealth had to declare war on the Nazis. Americans had to later on join. They had to cut a deal with Stalin and join hands.
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Desperate women throw babies over razor wire at compound, asking British soldiers to take them.
As every day passes, the relief operation gets more and more urgent and desperate, as the British military tries to move thousands of people out of Afghanistan in just days.
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