NEW DELHI—Since launching its offensive in April this year the Taliban have begun more frequently targeting assassinations of journalists, pilots, artists, and senior government officials, as part of an asymmetric strategy that experts call psychological warfare. A U.S. watchdog in Afghanistan, The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), in its quarterly report to the U.S. Congress beginning from June this year, expressed concern at the targeted assassinations of Afghan pilots when they are off-base. “Another worrisome development concerning AAF aircrew was a media report that the Taliban is deliberately targeting Afghan pilots. According to Reuters, at least seven Afghan pilots have been assassinated off-base in recent months,” said SIGAR in the report (pdf) released on July 30. Enayat Najafizada, founder and CEO of the Kabul-based Afghan Institute of War and Peace Studies, told The Epoch Times over the phone that the Taliban in their bid to circle and pressurize …