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A Failed Invasion vs A Failed Exit
The much-awaited exit of the US forces from Afghanistan has stretched a bit further than the set deadline. While President Joe Biden has always...
War to End or War to Follow?
“It's going to be hard to meet the May 1st deadline”. These were the recent words of US president Joe Biden in his address...
Will the enduring Proxy-war be ever ended in Afghanistan?
Abstract: this paper long-story-short explains a four-decade of Afghan conflict, the causes and effects of the ongoing proxy war in passage of the modern...
Political and Security Uncertainty Slow Down Afghanistan’s Economic Recovery
Afghanistan faces a sluggish economic recovery from COVID-19 amid continued political uncertainties and possible decline in international aid, says the World Bank in its...
Inclusion of Ethnicity in ID Card: A Bone of Contention in Afghanistan
The recent addition of 45 ethnic groups in the national database of identification card at the National Statistics and Information Authority in Afghanistan has...
Pakistan Army’s ‘Good Taliban’ Policy Unlikely to Change
One year after Pakistan’s most prized “Good Taliban” asset, the former Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan, ‘escaped’ from the military’s custody, the Pakistan...
A look at Afghanistan’s Regional Diplomacy in the Transformation Decade (2014-2024)
Regionalism has played an important and fundamental role in the post-Taliban foreign policy of Afghanistan. Afghanistan's location at the center of turbulent regional subsystems...
Ancestral Lineage of Hazaras: from Afghanistan to Pakistan
While the origins of Hazaras are much debated, opinions differ when it comes to the ancestral lineage of Hazara community. According to some historians,...
Huge blast on the Afghanistan-Iran border
On Saturday 13 February the Islam Qala reception center owned by the IOM was demolished at the border between Afghanistan and Iran, leading to...
‘Disturbing spike’ in Afghan civilian casualties after peace talks began
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan witnessed a sharp rise since peace negotiations started in September last year, even though overall deaths and injuries dropped in...