Analysis & Opinion
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TTP; Pakistan’s Tough Choices
When Pakistan first entered into talks with the TTP after Afghan Taliban returned to power, there were some positive movements initially. Brokered by the Haqqani Network, talks led to a ceasefire by the TTP. In return for the truce, Pakistan…
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Pakistan’s New Afghan Policy: Another Disaster in the Making?
Pakistan’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan Asif Durrani’s recent statement “peace in Afghanistan has become a nightmare for Pakistan” sums up the failure of two-decades of investment in the Taliban.
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Understanding Taliban Relations With Neighboring Powers
The significant influx of Afghan refugees places an undeniable burden on neighboring countries. The economic, social, and political implications of hosting large refugee populations contribute to the strain in relations. Balancing the needs of the refugees with national interests becomes…
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End of dollar-fuelled “Jihad” and Scapegoating the Refugee
Once these unfortunates cross the Torkham border, hell awaits them. Large numbers have never visited, much less known, the famine-stricken land to which they allegedly belong. Hundreds of thousands were born on Pakistani soil but could never acquire documents
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New International Approach for Peace and Reconciliation in Afghanistan; UN should Act Comprehensively!
The need for an inclusive and representative government comprised of all of Afghanistan’s political, religious, and ethnic groups is now a stronger point of consensus among regional and Western countries alike
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Afghanistan, BRI and Reality
Time will ultimately tell which approach is more successful, but a decade in, there is little evidence that China's mantra of prosperity equaling stability has much foundation in parts of the world touched by the BRI
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Dushanbe’s ‘ambiguous’ relations with Afghanistan-led Taliban
Afghanistan remains outside the UN and any international convention, and Tajikistan maintains the most intransigent position among the neighboring countries, asking for an agreed and "inclusive" government of all nationalities, something that the Taliban do not seem to want to…
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America’s Shameful Neglect of Its Afghan Friends and Allies
During the chaos of 2021, it is estimated that the US brought only 124,000 Afghan partners out of the country
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Collapse of Afghan Republic — US Policy Review
The report writers believe that ‘open-ended mission in Afghanistan led America into a policy trap’ where victory in traditional sense was impossible... due to the absence of ‘a functioning civil society’, and external support (read safe havens in Pakistan) to…
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Gaza Crisis and the $14 Billion Question; What’s Next?
In his remarks during his visit to Israel last week, Biden acknowledged that, in its response to 9/11, the United States "made mistakes." Two decades later, is the United States repeating the same mistakes in its efforts to back Israel?
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