AFGHANISTAN
US leverages Delhi-Kabul nexus. But what’s in it for India?
0 comments | by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
The two-hour stopover in Delhi on May 7 by the US special representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, accompanied by the White House official in charge of South Asia Lisa Curtis, raises eyebrows. The Indian media re
Read Full ArticleHow Different is the “New Normal” from the Old Normal...
0 comments | by Toby Dalton
How Different is the “New Normal” from the Old Normal in South Asian Crises? The summer “fighting season” in Kashmir appears to be heating up. Indian media reports suggest an increase in
Read Full ArticleThe Modi government’s new citizenship law puts India at...
0 comments | by Barkha Dutt
The Modi government’s new citizenship law puts India at war with itself “It’s 1947 all over again,” wrote my aunt on the family WhatsApp group
Read Full ArticleModi’s surgical strike on Muslims puts India at war with itself
0 comments | by Debasish Roy Chowdhury
Pincer attack with citizenship law and population verification sets the stage for prolonged unrest In the midst of an acute slowdown, a strange time to dabble in explosive social issues
Read Full ArticleCan the PM help? THERE has been a sudden and orchestrated..
0 comments | by Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
THERE has been a sudden and orchestrated de-escalation of the Middle East crisis. Allegedly, ‘better sense’ has prevailed in Tehran and discretion is now the better part of valour! If so, this would be a massive win for Trump and the US, and a severe setback for the Islamic Republic of Iran, rendering it more vulnerable to domestic anti-government pr
Read Full Article0 comments | by Farrukh Saleem
The hybrid threat to Pakistan is three dimensional: economic, societal and political. Pakistan’s enemies are throwing dollars to exploit our internal fissures. Our enemies are throwing dollars to pitch powers within Pakistan against each other. Yes, critical institutions are under attack in order to weaken the state. There’s no blood on our streets becau
Read Full ArticleDaesh Is Curiously Pursuing the Same Strategic Goal as IND in AFG
0 comments | by Andrew Korybko
The world’s most notorious terrorist group claimed credit for a suicide bombing in Pakistan that killed the Taliban leader’s younger brother and threatened to derail the organization’s peace talks with the US, which curiously aligns with the same strategic goal being pursued by India in Afghanistan.
Read Full ArticleIndia’s Afghan dream will eventually crumble
0 comments | by Ikram Sehgal
A day before the planned secret negotiations between President Donald Trump, President Ashraf Ghani and representatives of the Taliban at Camp David on Sunday, they were cancelled. The meeting was meant to eliminate disagreements that the Afghan President and parts of the US leadership had with the draft peace agreement, the result of almost a year’s negotiati
Read Full ArticleReflections on “Peace” In Afghanistan
0 comments | by Andrew Bacevich
When the conflict that the Vietnamese refer to as the American War ended in April 1975, I was a U.S. Army captain attending a course at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In those days, the student body at any of our Army’s myriad schools typically included officers from the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Since ARVN’s founding two decades earlier, the United
Read Full ArticleOver 10 million Afghans suffer acute food insecurity: UN report
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UNITED NATIONS: Some 10.23 million people in strife-torn Afghanistan suffer “severe acute food insecurity” and around one-third of the Afghan population required urgent humanitarian action from August to October, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) alert. The IPC, a coalition of United Nations agen
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