McMaster’s South Asia visit and emerging contours of a new U.S. Af-Pak Policy

Written by Abdul Basit. During the U.S. presidential election campaign, Donald Trump promised to end America’s second largest war in Afghanistan, after the Vietnam War, by extricating American troops from the war-torn country to focus on fighting Islamic radicalism in the Middle East. However, after election victory, his position on Afghanistan has changed qualitatively. In …