Holbrooke unsure if Pakistan against Afghan Taliban
US special envoy Richard Holbrooke said that he is agnostic about whether Pakistan had decisively turned against the Afghan Taliban.
Holbrooke made the comment in an interview with the Financial Times in relation to Pakistan’s arrest of the Afghan Taliban’s operational commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
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