Australians probably mostly still know of Imran Khan from his days as an international cricketer. These days he is Pakistan’s prime minister and this week he endorsed the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, saying Afghans had “broken the shackles of slavery”.

He wasn’t the only one to not be expressing the horror at the fall of Kabul that has been expressed in the West. There were lots of others - all with big stakes in the geostrategic game in Central Asia – who we rather blithely overlook when we think about Afghanistan.