OPINION: Japan should play active part in winning minds of Afghan people

For us Japanese, who have lived in peaceful bliss for quite some time, it is not easy to empathize with the plight of the people in Afghanistan or Pakistan, "frontline states" tossed around for centuries by ethnic, religious, civilizational and great power rivalries.As we contemplate what Japan can do for Afghanistan, we need to take into account the complex circumstances that have led to the takeover by the Taliban.No central government has ever exercised control over the whole of Afghanistan, an ethnic patchwork of the Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks, Turkmens and other tribes.When the …READ FULL ARTICLE