Analytics
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Girls’ Education; Persistent Struggle and Sustainable Commitment!
Millions of Afghan girls are being denied a chance to develop their talents and fulfil their dreams, putting a generation at risk of lasting damage and jeopardising the country’s economic future. Worse, those girls and women who fled to Pakistan to continue…
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Neglecting Afghanistan could Have Global Repercussions
What is Afghanistan’s purpose in this world? Why are we here? Where are we headed? When it comes to such questions, these and many more remain unanswered because our sociopolitical elites are fixated exclusively with their tactical and myopic goals
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American Hubris: Disastrous Consequences of U.S. Occupation of Afghanistan linger to this day
In early 2020, thinking he’d be reelected president that year, Mr. Trump dispatched his secretary of state to negotiate a peaceful withdrawal of nearly all U.S. forces and an end to the U.S. occupation. Mr. Trump’s diplomats did not negotiate…
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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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