Endgame: Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Politics of U.S. Withdrawal
IPS Conference Room 1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC, United StatesPresident Obama promises to begin transferring U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2011. A new international conference in Kabul endorses Afghan President Karzai’s call for Afghanistan to be in charge of its own security by 2014. Meanwhile, facing its own Islamist insurgency and growing economic and political crises, Pakistan considers its options in Afghanistan.