A long-awaited historic US-Taliban Peace Deal stands signed by US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar on February 29, 2020. All stake holders have expressed hopes of peace returning to Afghanistan, but the apprehensions on longevity of the deal as well as peace prospects could not been hidden in the utterances by various dignitaries.
While a peaceful terror free Afghanistan is everyone’s desirability in the region, the existing environment in Afghanistan, in which the deal has been signed leaves few questions in the mind of all strategists to ask: Is it a deal or compromise? Let me analyze it from the perspective of each of the stake holder.
