Courtney Schuster is a research associate with the International Security Program at New America and an assistant editor with the South Asia Channel.
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Afghan security forces inspect the scene of a suicide bomb attack which targeted the regional director at the Independent Election Commission, Awal Rehman Rodwal, in Kabul on November 28, 2015. A senior member of Afghanistan's election commission survived an assassination attempt when a suicide bomber targeted his vehicle in Kabul, killing one of his employees and wounding two others, officials said. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar / AFP / WAKIL KOHSAR (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistani rescue workers stand inside a burnt-out factory after it was torched by a mob in Jehlum on November 22, 2015. An angry mob in Pakistan's Punjab province torched a factory after one of its employees was accused of committing blasphemy, police officials said. Hundreds of people surrounded a chipboard factory in Jehlum city on November 20 and set the facility ablaze after reports surfaced that one employee had allegedly desecrated the Koran. AFP PHOTO / FAROOQ NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)
A burnt-out police pick-up truck stands in the street after Afghan security forces retook control of Kunduz city from the Taliban militants in northeastern Kunduz province, on October 1, 2015. Afghan forces retook control of the strategic northern city of Kunduz on October 1 after a three-day Taliban occupation that dealt a stinging blow to the country's NATO-trained military. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
This photograph taken on September 29, 2015 shows Afghan security personnel keeping watch as heavy fighting erupted near the airport on the outskirts of Kunduz. Taliban insurgents who seized the Afghan city of Kunduz have defied a counter-offensive and advanced on the airport where government forces retreated after the fall of the strategic northern gateway. Heavy fighting erupted near the airport on the city's outskirts as the insurgents closed in late on September 29, highlighting the potent challenge the militants represent after their lightning capture of Kunduz the previous day. AFP PHOTO / Nasir Waqif (Photo credit should read NASIR WAQIF/AFP/Getty Images)
A Taliban flag flutters over the main traffic roundabout a day after the insurgents overran the strategic northern city of Kunduz, on September 29, 2015. Afghanistan on September 29, 2015, mobilised reinforcements for a counter-offensive to take back Kunduz, a day after Taliban insurgents overran the strategic northern city in their biggest victory since being ousted from power in 2001. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan security forces gather at the roadside a day after Taliban insurgents overran the strategic northern city of Kunduz, on September 29, 2015. Afghanistan on September 29, 2015, mobilised reinforcements for a counter-offensive to take back Kunduz, a day after Taliban insurgents overran the strategic northern city in their biggest victory since being ousted from power in 2001. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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In this photograph taken on May 23, 2015, an Afghan Local Police (ALP) member keeps watch in Kasab village in Kunduz. A peach-fuzzed teenager clad in camouflage fatigues, Mohammad Jawad could be mistaken for a boy scout -- but he commands one of hundreds of Afghanistan's local anti-Taliban police units, accused of stoking insecurity. The US-funded Afghan Local Police (ALP) operate as surrogate village armies to fill a security vacuum in the remote Taliban-infested countryside, supplementing security forces which are stretched on multiple fronts as they face their first fighting season without the aid of NATO troops. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a joint press conference at the White House in Washington, DC, March 24, 2015. AFP PHOTO/JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA - JUNE 25: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been reviewed by the U.S. Military prior to transmission.) A sign stands in front of Camp Delta which is part of the U.S. military prison for 'enemy combatants' on June 25, 2013 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Barack Obama has recently spoken again about closing the prison which has been used to hold prisoners from the invasion of Afghanistan and the war on terror since early 2002. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Indian drivers for Uber show mobiles phones given to them by the company during a one-day hunger strike against the US-headquartered transportation service in Hyderabad on August 28, 2015. The drivers allege they were not making as much money as promised by Uber. India counts as Uber's second biggest market after the United States and the company claims around 35 percent of Indian market share with 150,000 "driver entrepreneurs." AFP PHOTO/NOAH SEELAM (Photo credit should read NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images)
Indian convenor of the 'Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti', Hardik Patel, who led recent protests in the state of Gujarat demanding preferential treatment regarding jobs and university places for the Patidar caste, looks on during a press conference underneath a banner reading 'Patels Delhi' in New Delhi on August 30, 2015. A firebrand protest leader vowed August 30 to spread agitation over caste preferences nationwide, just days after the worst violence in more than a decade in western India left nine people dead. AFP PHOTO / SAJJAD HUSSAIN (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images)
Ambulances transport the bodies of those killed in an attack by militants on a Pakistan Air Force base in Peshawar on September 18, 2015. Pakistani Taliban militants attacked an air force base in the country's restive northwest killing at least 17 people in their deadliest assault in months following a major military offensive against them. AFP PHOTO / HASHAM AHMED (Photo credit should read HASHAM AHMED/AFP/Getty Images)
A Pakistani policeman stands guard following an attack on Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) opposition party legislator Rashid Godil in Karachi on August 18, 2015. Unknown assailants riding a motorcycle opened fire on the car of a Pakistani lawmaker on August 18, officials said, critically wounding him in an attack that spiked tensions in the country's largest and most volatile city of Karachi. Rashid Godil, a legislator from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) opposition party, was in his parked car at a traffic light in the Bahadurabad neighbourhood in the eastern part of the city when the attackers began firing with automatic weapons. AFP PHOTO / RIZWAN TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)
Guests arrive for the opening ceremony of the new Taliban political office in Doha on June 18, 2013. The office is intended to open dialogue with the international community and Afghan groups for a "peaceful solution" in Afghanistan office spokesman Mohammed Naim told reporters. AFP PHOTO / FAISAL AL-TIMIMI (Photo credit should read FAISAL AL-TIMIMI/AFP/Getty Images)
Indian residents and their dog wait for a municipal worker fumigating an alley to pass during a dengue prevention spraying in the Old Quarters in New Delhi on October 10, 2013. Nearly 1,400 dengue cases have been reported from the Indian capital and adjoining areas and at least five people have died of dengue in Delhi. AFP PHOTO/ Andrew Caballero-Reynolds (Photo credit should read Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)
