India’s Afghan gambit
On January 8, 2025, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met with Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting foreign minister of Afghanistan, in Dubai. This meeting marked the highest-level engagement between the…
Afghan jihad and Kashmir
ampa, Florida, is a long way from South Asia, but in mid-2011 I was there to attend a conference on Pakistan at the headquarters of the US Central Command as…
After ‘caliphate’ collapse, IS fighters head to Afghanistan
Islamic State fighters who waged a bloody campaign in Syria and Iraq are heading to Afghanistan to help plot "spectacular" attacks against America, a US official has told AFP. The…
Afghanistan under the global spotlight
Afghanistan is said to be a reality that is neither apparent to senses nor obvious to the intelligence. This landlocked country is known for successfully frustrating the Mongolian, British and…
Trump’s Afghan policy: a deliberate miscalculation
How can Americans get defeated in Afghanistan, and how can Pakistan win the war against terror? This is something the superpower is not digesting. That's why they are shifting blame…
US plans to keep Al-Qaeda in check in Afghanistan with air strikes
The Pentagon plans to rely on air strikes to prevent a resurgence of Al-Qaeda now that US troops have left Afghanistan, but experts and some lawmakers are skeptical about the…
‘Aid-to-Afghanistan Consortium’?
Afghanistan is facing a severe economic downturn that could throw many millions into poverty and hunger, may generate a massive wave of refugees from the war-torn country and indeed set…
Scenarios for Afghanistan with foreign troops all but gone
With the United States military presence in Afghanistan effectively over, the country faces an uncertain future with Taliban attacks rampant and the threat of civil war looming. Fears are growing…
Intelligence without ‘intelligence’
Imagine being smart but dumb. Imagine being visionary but blind. Imagine being intelligent but clueless. That is how most Pakistanis felt when New Zealand cricket officials decided just hours before…
Afghanistan: the skewed debate
Weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan and formed an interim government, the global conversation on Afghanistan continues to focus on those aspects of the debate that the countries find…
