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Dec 2021
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Moeed Yusuf: What will a Taliban-control...

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Stephen Sackur speaks with Moeed Yusuf, National Security Adviser of Pakistan. The Taliban is back in power in neighbouring Afghanistan. US and Nato forces are gone. Pakistan sees opportunities in this new reality but are there grave dangers too?

(Photo: Moeed Yusuf appears via videolink on Hardtalk)

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