The Pakistani Angle on the Taliban Victory
The collapse of the Kabul government and the Taliban’s rapid takeover of nearly all of Afghanistan has captured the attention of the world. It has led to widespread discussion of…
‘Keep Us Out’: Taliban Foreign Affairs Chief Says India, Pakistan Can Fight Among Themselves on Border
India and Pakistan should not use Afghanistan in their internal fight, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai — tipped to be the war-torn nation’s foreign minister — has told CNN-News18 in an exclusive interview, reiterating…
India’s news drone policy cuts red tape and opens the skies
The new Drone Rules 2021 announced by the government on August 26 are a shot in the arm for the nascent remotely piloted aircraft (RPA)—or drones—industry in India. The liberalised policy depends…
Taliban Victory Threatens To Be A Double-Edged Sword For Pakistan And China – Analysis
Pakistani efforts to exploit the Taliban victory in Afghanistan threaten to reinforce ultra-conservative inclinations in Pakistan itself, the world’s second-most populous Muslim majority country, long accused of supporting militant religious…
Taliban’s Attitude To ISIS Will Be Critical For US Decisions On Afghanistan
The airport blasts could re-open the military option if the Taliban do not crackdown on the ISIS. The ISIS-engineered blasts near the Kabul airport on Thursday, in which 13 US…
Will The Taliban Stay United To Govern, Or Splinter Into Regional Fiefdoms?
As the Taliban transforms its military chain of command into a governing structure for Afghanistan, alliances and tribal configurations that kept two rival Taliban factions together in recent years are…
The time for equivocating about a nuclear-armed, Taliban-friendly Pakistan is over
John R. Bolton served as national security adviser under President Donald Trump and is the author of “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.” Many profound ramifications of…
Afghanistan: From here to where?
Joe Biden may keep justifying his actions of pulling out US troops from Afghanistan without a ceasefire and without any agreement worth the name. However, the military incompetence displayed by…
The Taliban-In-Kabul: Between ‘Trust-Deficit’ And ‘Crisis As Opportunity’
The unfolding events in Afghanistan amid persisting uncertainty and growing anxiety in Kabul have a very complex, yet diverse responses—from state to nonstate actors, from thinktanks to political commentators. Frantic…
What’s 50 Times More Dangerous Than Afghanistan?
Since Kabul fell to the Taliban Sunday, critics have flayed President Biden for diminishing America’s global standing, empowering the Taliban and their al Qaeda partners, cold-shouldering U.S. allies, and abandoning…