Taliban militants (file photo)

Amu: Deportation policies lacking geopolitical foresight may satisfy short-term domestic demands but ultimately empower authoritarian regimes that thrive on instability and coercion. If the West continues to pursue a transactional approach, it risks unintentionally facilitating the normalization of the Taliban on the global stage at the cost of Afghanistan’s civil society and human values, and to the detriment of international security. Click here to read more (external link).