Source: Hashte Subh Editor’s note: The following is the statement of Mr. Rahmatullah Nabil, which was delivered at the Herat Security Dialogue (HSD), organized by the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS), on 29-30 November 2022 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Rahmatullah Nabil served as the head of the National Security Directorate (NDS), Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, from…
Source: Foreign Policy The country’s former intelligence chief said the Taliban are torn between placating their foot soldiers and meeting Afghans’ and the international community’s expectations. Since Afghanistan collapsed to the Taliban on Aug. 15, the country has nose-dived into poverty, hunger, misery, conflict, and uncertainty. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled, and many…
Source: News Week By Rahmatullah Nabil Now is a crucial moment for the ongoing Afghan peace talks. While the new U.S. administration forms its national security team and implements a policy review on Afghanistan, including assessing the prospects for progress in the peace talks, Pakistan will not let the peace process drop from the attention…
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Rahmatullah Nabil and Melissa Skorka With the Trump administration considering how to break the stalemate between Taliban-allied groups and the government of Afghanistan, terrorists detonated a car bomb in Kabul on May 31, killing more than 150. Afghan intelligence blamed the violence on Haqqani, a terror network with close…
Source: New York Times WASHINGTON — Unlike his predecessor, Afghanistan’s spy chief, Rahmatullah Nabil, has never been accused by human rights groups of having a torture chamber in his basement. To the contrary, there are many Afghans who fear that Mr. Nabil may actually be too gentle for the job. Their thinking is that defeating the Taliban,…
