Author Biography

Ali A. Jalali is a distinguished professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at National Defense University and currently serving as senior USIP expert on Afghanistan. A former interior minister of Afghanistan (January 2003–October 2005), Jalali also worked more than twenty years as broadcast executive in Pashto, Dari, and Persian languages at the Voice of America in Washington, DC. This report is based on Jalali’s observations in Afghanistan during his visits to Kabul in October and November 2014 and his talks with Afghanistan political leaders.