US and Nato withdrawal from Afghanistan...- threadbanned users in OP

Pakistan is still hosting over a million refugees, from the previous conflicts. I would expect that most would stay for good, especially young kids who will grow up seeing Ireland as their home.

Now starts the financial crisis.

Such wisdom from Washington. Can we think of any cash crops from that country (a predominately rural population) may be able to grow in abundance, for export in order to make up the difference?

Pakistan didn't invade Afghanistan and setup a paper army.

Regardless, the reality is that a lot of refugees will end up staying. Telling someone they have go back to a country they haven't been in decades would be cruel. People will start jobs, education, form relationships etc over a long enough period of time.

I believe they will not change because fundamentally they are still saying "we will follow sharia law" to the letter, they are completely inflexible on this. Eventually it will revert to very little civil liberty and suppression with kangaroo courts and rife corruption. I am not taking much solace in their messages about women in education and the workforce. They will say that the women want to wear burkas and be obedient servants because they will want to due to the overwhelming weight of fear they will feel and the culture of spying and snitching.

FYI, its Afghan's, not afgani's, afgani is the currency of Afghanistan.

Seems they'll be reliant on NGO foreign aid for the foreseeable.

You may well be right, mind you with regards corruption, the Admin just gone was by all accounts the most corrupt set up ever.

I read the now ousted president even ran off with 165 million dollars ffs.

That kind of admin was bought by the US and dissolved as soon as US money did. I really do hope the Taliban are better than they were but things tend to revert to the same state in the end.

Could be various opposition groups coming together to oppose the spread out Taliban fighters. There's alot of road and negotiating yet to run out I'd imagine in this situation.

That area is in for a savage bating if the Taliban get in there. Lots of scores to settle.

Smart move would be to hold out for a Kosovo style deal

Fandymo, when the Taliban first arrived in Afghanistan after the Russians had left, there was a war already in progress between the different factions,and each faction was armed to the teeth,,you name it, they had it,,pretty much the same situation as exists today .. heavy and light machine guns, rocker launchers, Mortars, AK47's by the lorrry load, and as for mines and ammunition,,without Nr..+ explosives by the ton. All courtesy of the departing Russians, and gifted by the US. They were trained and experienced fighters, and guess what??? The Taliban went through them like a dose of salts, City after City including Kabul. Only the Northern Alliance were able to hold them off. And I don't know for sure , but as I remember, they had no where near 100'000 fighters back then.Now you can talk %'s all you like, but its not the Nrs that count in the final analysis, its the quality and experience of the people involved. So could a force of 167 professional well armed soldiers could take a town of 10'000 Civilians? Yes, they could.