{"id":537,"date":"2011-02-28T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ieds\/?p=537"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T13:59:10","slug":"dr-saleem-ali-proposes-divorce-for-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ieds\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Saleem Ali Proposes &#8220;Divorce&#8221; for Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0Dr. Saleem Ali, Director of IEDS, proposes in an article this week that the West should consider the possibility of granting the Taliban its own autonomous Islamic republic in the historically conservative border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan.\u00a0 By doing so, the Taliban would be forced to &#8220;prove their political bona fides&#8221;, and shoulder the burden of governing &#8211; with all its complexities and pressure towards moderation.\u00a0 Dr. Ali&#8217;s article, &#8220;The Islamic Republic of Talibanistan&#8221;, is available <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2011\/02\/25\/the_islamic_republic_of_talibanistan?page=0,0\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Dr. Saleem Ali, Director of IEDS, proposes in an article this week that the West should consider the possibility of granting the Taliban its own autonomous Islamic republic in the historically conservative border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan.\u00a0 By doing so, the Taliban would be forced to &#8220;prove their political bona fides&#8221;, and shoulder the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ieds\/?p=537\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr. Saleem Ali Proposes &#8220;Divorce&#8221; for Afghanistan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"beryan","author_link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ieds\/?author=1281"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ieds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ieds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ieds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ieds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ieds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ieds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ieds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ieds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ieds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/ieds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}