The post-withdrawal era has posed opportunities and challenges at home and abroad alike.
The revulsion-cum-revolution, though peaceful in essence, on Pakistan’s western frontiers and the Taliban set-up has pitched Pakistan in a leadership role in the region and beyond. For the first…
More than 70,000 casualties during the two decades of the so-called war on terrorism came at the hands of non-state actors. Pakistanis were bled to the core, their lives devastated and no place was spared from attacks.
The armed forces and the…
Three different segments of Pakistan’s socio-political fabric are happy to see the Taliban retake power in Afghanistan – each for a different reason.
Since the fall of Kabul, Pakistan has received much criticism in Afghanistan and elsewhere (including Iran and India) for…
Two decades of brinkmanship and a fallacious geopolitical strategy in Afghanistan have taught the United States one simple lesson; never police beyond its frontiers. But it would have been better if Washington had realised this bitter truth after its fiascos in Iraq,…
The least that Ebrahim Raisi should do is to curtail the powers of the unelected strata, reform the financial sector, and open up the great Persian civilisation to the outside world
Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi has a much tougher task than…
President Joe Biden said in April 2021 that by September of this year the U.S. military will depart from Afghanistan. Security on bases and outposts of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces were stepped up as the Taliban continued to seize…
Afghanistan sits at the crossroads of all energy, trade and transit corridors in an era of geo-economics
Afghans are witnessing a déjà vu. History is repeating itself. The country is once again exploding, and this time despite a relatively peaceful change of guard.…
Many on the front line of the Taliban offensive grew up in post-Taliban Afghanistan Americans misread the Taliban’s power, assuming it had diminished as had Al-Qaeda’s
ISLAMABAD: As Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul on Aug. 15 for an undisclosed destination, armed…
The multiple suicide attacks at the Kabul airport on August 26, killing over 170 people, including 13 American soldiers, and injuring over 200, are stark reminders that the Afghan capital remains vulnerable despite the Taliban's control of the city. They also warn…
A scrimmage in a border town A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten Rupee Jezail
(Rudyard Kipling)
Afghans have done what Afghans do best - fight to the bitter end and celebrate it as…