Time to talk to the Taliban for the greater good?

While there may be a sense of loyalty to these Afghan diplomats, the truth is that Canada needs to recognize the reality that they are now an impediment to future relations with a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

Ambassador Hassan Soroosh plans to keep the Afghan Embassy in Ottawa functioning as long as possible, but the Ghani government is gone and these Afghan diplomats have absolutely no status with the now-ruling Taliban regime, writes Scott Taylor. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

January 24, 2022

OTTAWA—It was on Aug. 15, 2021, that Afghanistan officially fell to the Taliban. The sudden resurgence of the Taliban on the eve of the announced U.S. military withdrawal seemed to take everyone by surprise—except for the people of Afghanistan. The Pentagon was banking on the fact that the 350,...

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