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India-Pakistan: Rethinking regional connectivity
If one were to look at discussions pertaining to South Asia, India’s current tensions with China, and strained ties with neighbors – especially Nepal...
Iran’s balanced role in Afghanistan
U.S. and Taliban Peace deal signing in Doha on February 8 has brought with it some uncertainty. Since the agreement many countries in the...
Endgame in Afghanistan: Division, Hope and Challenges
The efforts for kick-starting intra-Afghan negotiations (IAN) faced another roadblock, as Afghan President Ghani’s appointed 46-member High Council for National Reconciliation, is rejected by...
The Afghan intelligence services
Still today the Afghan Intelligence Services’ ability to collect information is definitively scarce. This is mainly due to the limited specific training of staff...
Beijing’s strategy: Conquering the Heartland
Long time ago, Mackinder gave his heartland theory while keeping the geography of the world in his mind. Soon as the international politics changed...
Strategic Depth: The potential causative factor of post-Taliban Afghan Armed Conflict
Afghanistan is one of the most unfortunate countries on earth that has witnessed decades of seemingly endless armed-conflict. While analyses of the post-Taliban Afghan...
The irrational approach caused US failures
India, a country far away from Afghanistan, having no border, no cultural links, no religious harmony, no common language, no common interests, and no...
Skeletons in the cupboard of History
The checkered History of Pakistan is marked by several erroneous decisions and culpabilities. Some of the substantial blunders that had changed the fate and...
Hit Hard by COVID-19, Afghanistan Needs Continued International Support
Afghanistan’s economy is set to contract by between 5.5 percent and 7.4 percent in 2020 because of COVID-19, exacerbating poverty, and leading to a...
Future of U.S.-Russia Relations After The Bounty Reports
A jaw-dropping intelligence story surfaced on 26th June, 2020, in the New York Times, telling that a specialized branch of the Russian Federation’s military...