FILE — An Afghan soldier fires a machine gun at Taliban positions in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan on May 10, 2021. The Taliban have captured the capital of one of Afghanistan’s western provinces, Afghan officials said on Friday, Aug. 6, 2021, a symbolic milestone in the insurgents’ relentless march to retake power in the country. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
South Asia has a long-shared history of ancestry, culture, and colonisation (most of it, not all) and a history of partition, struggle for independence...