TY - BOOK AU - KHAN Ayesha TI - US policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan: antidote to insurgency PY - 2009/// KW - AFGHANISTAN KW - INSURGENCY KW - UNITED STATES KW - FOREIGN POLICY N2 - Increasing the number of US troops in Afghanistan might do more harm than good, meanwhile talks between NATO, the Afghan government and the Taliban are fraught with difficulties in themselves and may also cause problems in Pakistan's tribal areas ER -