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Owais Tohid

Owais Tohid has reported extensively on war and conflict in Asia for 30 years and witnessed the rise and fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan. He has also covered the Palestinian conflict in the Occupied Territories and worked for the BBC World Service, AFP and CS Monitor. Twitter: @OwaisTohid

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Owais Tohid

Taliban’s broken promises and seeking a lost Afghanistan

August 15, 2022

Owais Tohid

Russia no more the ‘red infidel’

February 24, 2022

Owais Tohid

Of bleeding mountains and the Balochistan paradox

When the Taliban overran Kandahar and Helmand, Baloch insurgents sensed their hideouts in Afghanistan were not safe anymore. Under previous Ghani and Karzai governments, the Afghan Taliban provided them shelter, but now the militia was itself the government.

February 10, 2022

Owais Tohid