Research and Reference

The Taliban Story: How Taliban regrouped took the war to the Allied camp (Part 24)

By Arun Anand This is the 24th part of the series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 24th part- It didn’t take too long for Taliban to regroup and make a comeback. Within …

The Taliban Story: The Night Letters: Beginning of Taliban’s comeback (Part 23)

By Arun Anand This is the 23rd part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 23rd part- By late 2002, the Taliban had regrouped and announced its comeback through the …

The Taliban Story: How international community failed Afghanistan, paved way for Taliban (Part 22)

By Arun Anand This the 22nd part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 22nd part- Hamid Karzai was not a bad choice to lead Afghanistan but he had too …

The Taliban Story: Playing both sides: How Pakistan enabled revival of Taliban (Part 21)

By Arun Anand This is the 21st part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 21st part- The Pakistan spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) played a critical role in enabling …

The Taliban Story: Beginning of the US misadventure: laying the ground for revival of Taliban (Part 20)

By Arun Anand This is the 20th part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 20th part- The road to revival of Taliban owes its birth and rapid progress to …

The Taliban Story: Hamid Karzai: The Man of many shades who lead Afghanistan post-Taliban (Part 19)

By Arun Anand This is the 19th part of the series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 19th part- Hamid Karzai, who was chosen as the interim leader and later on full time …

The Taliban Story: How winners took it all and shaped post-Taliban regime (Part 18)

By Arun Anand This is 18th part of the series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationslistview.com. Here is the 18th part- As Taliban got routed within few weeks of the US and its allies’ invasion of …

The Taliban Story: How Operation Enduring Freedom routed earlier Taliban regime (Part17)

By Arun Anand This is 17th part of the series on Taliban. You can share your feedback at Contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 17th part- In the aftermath of Al-Qaeda attack in United States on 11 September, 2011(commonly known as ‘9/11’), …

The Taliban Story: A brief history of troublemaker ISI (Part16)

By Arun Anand Taliban has been created and mentored by Pakistan’s spy agency Inter Services Intelligence. We have talked about a clandestine unit ‘Directorate S’ earlier in brief. Here we would try to have a more detailed look at the …

The Taliban Story: Directorate S: The Pakistani Deep State (Part 15)

By Arun Anand This is 15th part of the series on ‘The Taliban Story’. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 15th part: Directorate S is a secret unit of the Pakistan’s spy agency ISI. It played …

The Taliban Story (Part 14): CIA and ISI-A Failed Marriage

By Arun Anand This is 14th part of our series on ‘The Taliban Story’. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 14th part The irony couldn’t have been lost. On the morning of September 11, 2001, when …

The Taliban Story (Part13): Taliban and ISI: Cloak and Dagger

By Arun Anand This is the 13th part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban Story’ that we bring to our readers. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 13th part: Pakistan’s Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) had …