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Is the global community about to betray Afghanistan again?

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Even though Gaza and the Ukraine currently dominate the international agenda, the world will be making a costly mistake if it does not pay close attention to a crucial two-day United Nations meeting starting on Sunday.

Attention spans can be short in the foreign policy space. Some may have forgotten the chaotic withdrawal of the American-led force from Afghanistan in August 2021 and the violent takeover by the Taliban that settled the fate of my nation. It was as if the seizing of power legitimized the rule of the minority clique of the ultra-extremist Taliban.

I speak for the suppressed majority of

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