It’s hard to imagine that barely three weeks ago, most of Afghanistan was under the control of the Columbia University-trained President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. Following the withdrawal of US-military troops, province after province, the country’s military defence crumbled like a pack of cards and by Sunday, August 15th, Taliban fighters were seen sitting at the Presidential palace in Kabul and reciting the Koran, as the embattled President fled his country. India’s former Ambassador to Kabul, Gautam Mukhopadhaya, described the Taliban takeover as a “Pakistani invasion with an Afghan face”....