Salman Rafi Sheikh is a researcher with the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London and the author of "The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism: Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947-1977."
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Taliban claims to have brought peace are wearing thin
Afghanistan risks falling back into civil war as armed opposition grows
A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in Kabul on July 29: The group's Islamic Emirate has still not put Afghanistan on a path of peace and development. © AP
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