Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 10/2009

Disaggregating the Pakistani Taliban: Does the good, the bad and the ugly Taliban distinction represent a failed policy?

Mona Kanwal Sheik

September 2009

Danish Institute for International Studies

Abstract

Discussions about a possible dialogue with Taliban have primarily focused on Afghan Taliban. However, many of the problems that NATO troops in Afghanistan are facing originate in the militant spillover from Pakistan.