Summary - SH

1) Afghan girls finish primary school and then just stop. Their older sisters are banned from university, clinics and almost every job. Their voices are forbidden in public and they can’t leave the house without a male relative. Five years of this, and it’s still treated as anything except what it is: men enforcing their reading of Islamic law to erase women from ordinary life. 2) Pakistan’s deals are real, but India’s long-term plan is still unfinished. Both have limits. Pakistan gains importance when other countries face crises. India is trying to become something its partners will need after those crises end. Neither has fully succeeded yet. The difference is the time horizon. 3) "When a fool gains power, the first thing he does is silence the wise. The next thing he does is gather other fools around him. The final thing he does is destroy the nation" — Plato "In the jungle, there is no news of good and evil; only the strong and the weak exist. The ethics of the sheep do not change the wolf's beliefs!" — Machiavelli "Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think" — Hannah Arendt

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