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- Title: Afghanistan and the US Troops' Withdrawal
- Author : Pakistan) The Express Tribune (Karachi
- Release Date : January 03, 2011
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 51 KB
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Byline: Shahid Javed Burki The American leadership positioned in Afghanistan was confident that it had turned the Taliban tide in the country. It was reluctant to lose that advantage by too precipitous a withdrawal. One indication of success was the relative quiet in the southern districts bordering the province of Balochistan in Pakistan. According to a recent New York Times (NYT) report, "the poppy harvest is over and the fighting season has arrived in southern Afghanistan - except this year the Taliban have not returned in their usual numbers to intensify the war".