By Abdul Basit, Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. 06 July 2021 As the US is withdrawing, Afghanistan finds itself at history’s crossroads and it seems the history will repeat itself, yet again. The Taliban’s rapid territorial gains,
Let us face the facts; the Taliban want a military solution for the simple reason that the US-led coalition has recognized the locus of the Taliban without conditions. Now, those insisting that the Taliban may agree to come to terms with the
A scrimmage in a border station,A canter down some dark defile,Two thousand pounds of education,Drops to a ten rupee Jezail….Strike hard who cares,The odds are on the cheaper man.(Rudyard Kipling) Afghanistan is a place where the staccato sound of the machine intones
There is a strong feeling of deja vu about Afghanistan in the air. The environment, despite the passage of two decades, is eerily reminiscent of the disorder of the early nineties when a power vacuum led to a civil war in all
By Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal. He is former Assistant Chief of Air Staff of Pakistan Air Force. He can be reached at khalid3408@gmail.com 18 February 2021 In all probability, the US has taken an in-principle decision to renege upon its February 29,
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
There are reports that the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is contemplating to review the agreement signed by former President Donald Trump’s administration with the Taliban. It is not surprising that the ground realities in Afghanistan, especially continuous violence in the country,
CPEC and Afghanistan: Future of Mutual Prosperity and Regional Connectivity Date: September 15, 2020 Time: 1900 hrs (Pakistan Standard Time) Themes of the webinar: 1. Lt Gen (R) Asim Saleem Bajwa, HI(M), Chairman CPEC Authority Keynote Speaker 2. Ms. Tehmina
With the collapse of talks in Afghanistan, peace once again has become a distant thought. The cancellation of talks is a strange development in itself, given that the US representative and the Taliban had the last round of talks on September 2,
