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A major task ahead for Trump would be to negotiate with Russia on the future of US-Russia arms control.
Trump's Afghan strategy has been long in the making. But the wait has been well worth it.
The fulfilment of TTP’s demand would indirectly help the Afghan Taliban achieve its expansionist position on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Turkey and the US have at least one common interest, to stop the complete collapse of the Kabul government; to keep the Kabul government in control of
The victory of Taliban in Afghanistan is altering the Islamist jihad landscape, making it more complex as various actors engage in regional and strate
One year into Taliban rule, Afghan women and girls struggle for basic human rights.
India has broadened its counterterrorism engagements in the face of the evolving threat of terrorism
Is the UN biding its time by bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table while still not according it official recognition?
The US knows that the Pakistan government has little to no control over the support to terror groups as it is done by the deep state, comprising the a
The root cause of insecurity — which hampers Afghanistan’s state-building process and sustainable development — lies outside of the country. The
The US needs Pakistan to withdraw from Afghanistan and Pakistan needs all the money it can get. Pakistan also dreads that if the US leaves without helping Pakistan get what it wants from the Indians now, which is a concession on Kashmir, they will never have another chance.
The tripartite meeting between Afghanistan, Pakistan and the US representatives on August 2 took place against the backdrop of souring relationships, killing of Osama bin Laden and President Barak Obama's 2014 withdrawal plan.
Violence is being used as a means to manipulate the trajectory of the Afghan peace process.
Most analysts agree that a dangerous mix of demand, supply and currency is responsible for Punjab’s drug menace. Punjab is both a transit point and a market for the drugs smuggled from the so-called Golden Crescent that is Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. While the heroin produced in Afghanistan is smuggled through the 553-km-long, porous India-Pakistan border, the opium, poppy husk, charas and hashish, among other drugs, come from the neighbour
The latest White House assessment of the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan submitted to the US Congress has questioned Pakistan's commitment towards degrading and defeating terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Taliban.
The tech industry will create a new social class in moderate Muslim states that will make them resilient to Islamic radicalization while building the
The US cannot be seen to be losing the war in a re-election year, and so the US withdrawal needs repackaging as a peace process for Afghanistan. The problem is that nobody really knows what the Taliban wants and reconciling an emirate — and Shariat-based system with the existing constitution — is not easy.
Much more is at stake than domestic security when it comes to how the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan will affect the small South Asian states
Europe has to come to grips with the fact that not even the USA is strong enough to create a new order anywhere in the world, neither in Afghanistan nor in the Middle East. Instead, anything that will increase the conflict without an achievable goal will play into the hands of the IS.
India has underscored the need for improving connectivity with Kabul for trade and transit potential.
If it wants to be a source of regional stability, it must act like one.
The international community seems to be caught between a rock and a hard place as coercive tactics to reform the Talibann are proving to be ineffectiv
Amid Russian and Chinese aggressions, the US has refocused its attention on al- Qaeda to reassert its grip on the global order.
Within Pakistan, it is the army which controls foreign policy towards India, Afghanistan and the US. The polity has no role. Every time the polity has
Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to form a joint commission to collaborate their efforts to reach a political solution to the Taliban insurgency. This was announced during the visit of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Army chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani to the Afghanistan capital of Kabul over the weekend.
China has recently rolled out several measures that cracked down on businesses with an aim to redistribute wealth and reduce inequality. Many are likening this to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.
US President Barack Obama is trying to reconcile the irreconcilables - the requirements of his domestic audience and the situation on the ground in Afghanistan. It will take a while before we know whether he has fallen between stools.
As tensions increase across the border, there is very little keeping the peace together
The looming danger is that the President Trump’s eagerness to tout the deal as a success would precipitate a hasty US withdrawal.
The Observer Research Foundation first conceptualised the foreign policy survey last year to build on the existing strand of polling research in India. In December 2020, the poll sampled 2,037 Indians aged 18-35 from 14 cities
Zalmay Khalilzad has a tall task ahead of him in talking to the Taliban.
अमेरिका ने वादा किया है कि वो तालिबान पर अपने लगाए प्रतिब�
इंडो-पॅसिफिकवरून, अमेरिका-चीनमध्ये तणाव वाढतोय. त्यामुळे अफगाणिस्तानातील घडामोडींच्या पार्श्वभूमीवर भारताने सावध राहायला हवे.
पाकिस्तानाच्या आशीर्वादाने भारतात दहशतवाद वाढवू शकतील, अशा संघटनांना अफगाणिस्तानात थारा मिळू नये, यासाठी प्रयत्न करण्यात भारताचे हित आहे.
११ सप्टेंबर २०२१ रोजी अफगाणिस्तानातून अमेरिकेच्या सर्व सैन्य तुकड्या माघारी येतील, अशी घोषणा राष्ट्राध्यक्ष जो बायडन यांनी केली आहे.
अफगाणिस्तानच्या पुनर्बांधणीमधून अमेरिका बाहेर पडली तरीही, स्थिर अफगाणिस्तानाचे उद्दिष्ट साध्य करण्यासाठी, भारताने प्रयत्न करणे आवश्यक आहे.
अमेरिकेने सैन्य मागे घेण्याच्या निर्णयासोबत धगधगत्या अफगाणिस्तानमध्ये आणखी जटील असे नवीन प्रश्न उभे राहात आहेत, राहाणार आहेत. या प्रश्नांचा वेध घेणारा लेख.
तालिबानने अफगाणिस्तानवर मिळविलेल्या ताब्यामुळे अमेरिकेच्या अफगाणिस्तान मोहिमेच्या अपयशाचा शिलालेखच लिहिला गेला आहे.
अफगाणिस्तान-चीन सहकार्याच्या भविष्यासाठी तेल करार ही मूलभूत चाचणी असू शकते.
