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Canada and Afghanistan: What's next? A conversation with Majumdar, Manley, Fadden, and Alexander | Macdonald-Laurier Institute
Check out this panel discussion with some of Canada's most experienced experts to make sense of the situation in Afghanistan.
www.macdonaldlaurier.ca
Shuvaloy Majumdar, who served as director of policy to successive Conservative ministers of foreign affairs, told Power & Politics Pakistan has been a material backer of the Taliban for 20 years because the country's intelligence apparatus aims to create instability in the region.
"The Taliban are being advised by Pakistani military and intelligence on the ground today in Afghanistan. We know that the wounded Taliban are being treated inside Pakistan. We know that the Taliban were created by Pakistan's ISI," said Majumdar Wendesday.
"And we know that Imran Khan, the prime minister of Pakistan, has been celebrating the Taliban victory as having represented casting off the shackles of Western occupation inside Afghanistan," said Majumdar, referencing remarks made by Khan shortly after Kabul fell to the Taliban.
Majumdar, who is now foreign policy director at the Ottawa-based Macdonald-Laurier Institute, said he thinks Pakistan's military must be "induced" to end its "forever war inside Afghanistan."