Analysis
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India-Iran-Uzbekistan’s Joint Efforts for Central Asian Connectivity
India’s push with the trilateral arrangement for Uzbekistan to use Chabahar port is important in the context of expanding bilateral, trilateral, as well as broader regional cooperation. But more significantly, it is a geopolitical move aimed at countering growing Chinese…
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Afghan Peace Talks Overcome Another Hurdle
They all favor Afghan stability and support a conditional U.S. withdrawal. But the Biden administration’s approach to regional actors with influence in Afghanistan will be an important factor in whether talks succeed or fail
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Afghanistan in 2020: A year of Hope, Frustration, and Suffering
Optimism is a rare commodity in Afghanistan. Yet early in 2020 hopes soared that a negotiated end to years of brutal civil war was in sight.
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Why Taliban Are Reluctant to Declare Ceasefire?
The Taliban are also doubtful whether the movement can enforce a ceasefire on all its commanders. Differences within the Taliban have been revealed recently during the peace talks with the US and the Afghan government
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Who Cares If Al-Qaeda Remain in Afghanistan?
The question of even greater consequence, what is the best way to counter it? Continued conventional armed combat against the Taliban is not the answer. Finding, containing, monitoring and killing Al Qaeda is the answer.
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Afghanistan-Pakistan Distrust; Challenge to Peace process and Sustainable Stability
In 2011, Pakistan’s ISI and Afghanistan’s NDS agreed on an MoU for intelligence sharing and cooperation. However, the then NDS chief refused to sign the MoU as the Ghani administration faced stiff resistance from within on the issue
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Pakistan’s ‘University of Jihad’ Proud of Taliban alumni
"Russia was broken into pieces by the students and graduates of Darul Uloom Haqqania and America was also sent packing," beamed Shah, an influential cleric at the seminary that critics have dubbed the "university of jihad"
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Intra-Afghan Negotiations: Peace at the Cost of Democracy?
This would lead to an end of negotiations after the withdrawal of foreign troops, and the outbreak of a new phase of the civil war similar to that of the 1990s
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Trump, Biden and the myth of post-election peace in Afghanistan
When it comes to promoting plans on counter-terrorism, both Trump and Biden camps are quick to suggest U.S. imperatives against groups such as Al Qaeda. But that very same commitment seems to take a backseat when Washington's own terms of…
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Has Pakistan’s Policy towards Afghanistan Changed
Pakistan has adopted a proactive policy of taking all parties in confidence and is eager to bring peace in Afghanistan.
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