Opinion

Australia was in Afghanistan for 20 years, but what now?

By John Tierney
Updated July 21 2021 - 3:16pm, first published 1:00pm
REPRESSION: The future will be bleak for the Afghan people if the Taliban win and reimpose medieval Islamist rule.
REPRESSION: The future will be bleak for the Afghan people if the Taliban win and reimpose medieval Islamist rule.

Travelling back down the Khyber Pass from the border with Afghanistan in 1996, I observed our parliamentary delegation's military escort. In front of us was an open army truck where 12 Pakistani soldiers sat with their AK-47 assault rifles.

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