Pakistan, April 15 -- There is a certain rhythm to the humanitarian update these days, a familiar cadence that arrives from (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) OCHA and UNAMA (United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan) like clockwork. You read the reports, and you start to notice a subtle but unmistakable shift in framing. Increasingly, the narrative portrays the Taliban regime not as an actor, but as a victim of escalation, of circumstance, of forces beyond its control. It is a curious pivot, and one that deserves a harder look. After all, would an obscurantist regime of this nature ordinarily permit United Nations agencies to operate freely on its soil? Almost certainly not. And yet, here we are, ...