Time to put an end to guns and gossips! Build on the trust attained in Qatar to foment an era of peace and nation-building in Afghanistan Afghanistan is an enigma of sorts. Its geo-political vulnerability has kept it on the tenterhooks — and literally in a state of war for more than four decades. Umpteenth …
The East and West apparently can for once meet in a symbiosis of values and material rewards. The idea is embodied in the East West Economic Corridor (EWEC), an eponymous complement to CPEC, a small component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI promises to raise the trade volume with some 40 countries …
President Joe Biden recently announced the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan starting May 1, to be completed by September 11, this year. This announcement is being criticized by the retired American generals and pro-establishment politicians, who still see merit in keeping troops in that country. However, Biden’s counterargument which no one could answer was …
Afghan pullout: A precursor to peace or renewed cold war Read More »
This is perhaps a long overdue pertinent question, which has not been asked in the last few years, especially after the 2019 crisis of India and Pakistan. It is important for the Indian audience to consider this question seriously. However, a little digression by way of a few important points. On 17 March 2021, two …
HOPE springs eternal in human bosom and South Asia might just be lucky enough to experience the post-Biden peace dividends that so far have defied the region. The Biden Presidency instills a new hope of a Kantian world of peace and cooperation as opposed to cut throat Hobbesian competitiveness of Trump era. South Asia has …
The new administration must take a leap forward in cementing People’s centric profiles with Pakistan Pakistan has been obsessed with the United States for the last seven decades. Washington, in reciprocity, hardly has a bilateral policy towards Islamabad. It is an antithesis of our myopic foreign policy that the United States had always viewed Pakistan …
Like the proverbial city on the hill, the US has acted as a magnet for those who wanted to live out the American dream. For the world at large it was a colossus that bestrode the world with equal beneficence and malevolence for those who either joined its bandwagon or crossed its path. The most …
Biden’s step into the Presidential Office is considered as the dawn of a “new era” in the United States (U.S.). With the new administration coming in with a different agenda, it is interesting to speculate possible changes to the strategic architecture in South Asia, particularly to the U.S.-Pakistan relationship. Conventional wisdom suggests that nothing new …
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