Tag Archives: Afghanistan

With its peace plan stalled, Islamabad is wary of ‘spoilers and detractors’ in Afghanistan.

Ashraf Ghani finds himself pitched against deeply-entrenched beliefs about Pakistan in Afghanistan’s security establishment.

Mullah Omar’s pro-talks message is a morale booster for Ghani.

Iran’s Chabahar port is challenging the significance of Pakistan’s Gwadar deep sea port. The project is strategically important particularly for India due to its land access to Afghanistan and Central Asia which is otherwise blocked by the territory of Pakistan.

China, Russia and the U.S. each have visions to connect Central Asia with the rest of Eurasia.

Advice from China­ to Pakistan­ is unequivocally clear and categorical: develop consensus on the proposed China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

What the recent boom in the cosmetic industry means for the Afghanistan's middle class.

There is a formidable challenge in reversing the consequences of Pakistan’s flawed policies of ‘strategic depth’ and containing the contagion of religious radicalization. Until the government, and its entire security apparatus, drastically revises its strategic matrix, divorces itself from the radical groups it helped create and draws up an internal security strategy, it will find it hard to shake off the image that Pakistan is the crucible of terrorism.

Cooperation against terror might become the first step towards better ties between India and Pakistan.

Islamabad must build on the unusual goodwill in Kabul to prove it is sincere in cooperating against terrorism.