More: Afghanistan
India’s chameleon Afghan policy
India Afghan bonhomie has seen many ups and downs. India’s friendship with Afghanistan is ostensibly actuated by altruism. But, deep down, it is upshot...
Afghanistan is the victim of a new geopolitical game
Afghanistan is a land of natural and human excesses, a land of secrets and hopes and a land with a prominent geopolitical position, which...
Dealing with the Taliban: India’s Strategy in Afghanistan after Regime Change
Present piece deals with recent stunning takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban and India’s foreign policy dilemma in dealing with new ruling. It also deals...
Afghanistan: Taliban versus the USA and allied Brobdingnagians: Bitter truths
The writer is of the view that American guestimates about emerging post-exit scenario have miserably failed. The expectation that the US trained Afghan forces...
Stop Abusing The Cause of Afghan Women
As a Muslim deeply invested in his faith, the mere existence of the Taliban is anathema. The work I do, the research I commit...
Inglorious End
That the twenty-year military (and every other) intervention of the West led by the United States in Afghanistan has experienced an inglorious end is quite clear. No...
U.S. military-industrial failures and calculations in Afghanistan
Analysts have pointed out that the 20-year war in Afghanistan has shown that the United States has failed to use force to solve the...
A New Afghanistan, A New Taliban: How Has the United States Contributed?
Animosities have ended, and we would like to live peacefully, without internal or external enemies.- Zabihullah Mujahid, Spokesperson of the Taliban, 17 August 2021
The...
Taliban and Al Qaeda: Putting a fox in charge of the chicken coop?
Abu Omar Khorasani was taken from Kabul’s Pul-i-Charkhi prison and unceremoniously shot.
The first and only person to have been executed since the Taliban gained...
The CIA’s Strategic Thinking in Afghanistan: 1979 to 2021
Afghanistan has been a priority area for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since the 1950s as a result of the growing influence of the...