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Kathmandu has good reason to want to shake off New Delhi’s influence over it. In 2015, India
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The High Peace Council (HPC), the Afghanistan Ulema Council (AUC), the Grand National Council of Jihadi Leaders and Afghan Women’s Association has urged the governm
