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Taliban’s participation in the UN-led conference in Doha
Jul 12, 2024

Taliban’s participation in the UN-led conference in Doha

With the conference providing no significant gains in both security- and economics-related issues, the trade-off of not having women and civil society

From Poppy Fields to Black Markets: Understanding the Drug Trade Across India and Myanmar
Oct 03, 2024

From Poppy Fields to Black Markets: Understanding the Drug Trade Across India and Myanmar

The 2023 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report highlights a surge in drug production in Myanmar, posing serious security challenges. The cultivation of poppy, key for heroin production, increased by 33 percent in 2022, reversing a downward trend seen since 2014. Experts attribute the rise largely to livelihood challenges: Myanmar’s economy contracted by 18 percent in 2021, with only a modest rebound in 2022, and there are the compound

Pak Army's Second Kargil
Apr 13, 2004

Pak Army's Second Kargil

Waziristan last month ostensibly to hunt down al Qaida and Talibanelements has been a visible failure which could dramatically alterthe already existing fault lines in the force divided betweenloyalty to Musharraf, nation and religion.South Waziristan is one of the seven areas -Khyber, Kurram,Orakzai, Mohmand, Bajaur, North and South Waziristan - which wereclubbed together as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)by the British who wanted