Pakistan was ostensibly America's partner in the war against al-Qaida and the Taliban and its military won tens of billions in American aid over the last two decades, even as Washington acknowledged that much of the money disappeared into unaccounted sinkholes
Khalil Haqqani delivers a sermon after Friday prayers at the Pul-e Kheshti mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. Pakistan, nominally a U.S. partner in the war, was the Afghan Taliban’s main patron, and sees the Taliban’s victory as its own. But now what does it do with its prize?
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