Afghanistan at the Crossroads: Insights on the Conflict Afghan President Hamid Karzai will dispatch a contingent of Afghan military officers to Pakistan for training under the Pakistani military. Meanwhile, Islamabad is preparing to extradite Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar to Afghanistan. While perhaps seemingly unrelated, these events represent Kabul's acceptance of a greater Pakistani role in Afghanistan. STRATFOR has chronicled how Kabul, long dominated by elements skeptical of — if not downright hostile to — Pakistani intentions in Afghanistan, has begun to shift its longtime position. Kabul's changing stances have resulted from the growing realization of the Taliban's increasing strength. Even those who always have opposed political accommodation have begun to recognize that no solution is possible in Afghanistan without it, as the National Council for Peace, Reconciliation and Reintegration orchestrated by Karzai and held in Kabul on June 2-4 found.