Pakistan and China: the new US game
I had earlier suspected that the US was deliberately pushing Afghanistan towards chaos and civil war as well as creating troubles for Pakistan. However, I was not completely sure and…
A difficult path to peace
Things along our eastern front may appear to be stable, but the same cannot be said of the situation brewing along the western border. Two recent interviews and a speech…
A trail of destruction
The foreign occupying troops are all set to withdraw from Afghanistan after years of presence in the war-torn country. Though many supporters of the invasion point out the achievements of…
Afghan reconciliation
THE results of the 2019 Afghan presidential elections have further complicated the prospects for achieving intra-Afghan political reconciliation. They have pushed down the hope that the newly elected regime would…
Analysing the pact
AS in the case of Donald Trump’s speech in Ahmadabad, so too with the US-Afghan Taliban agreement, the text of the agreement does not appear on the website of the White…
Afghan politics vs infection
EVEN Covid-19 has failed to take attention away from the ongoing political stand-off in Afghanistan. The intensity of the Afghan political crisis is so great that the power stakeholders in…
Engaging the Americans
The Biden Administration is less than a month old, but already it is knee-deep in the quicksand that is the American war in Afghanistan. A full US troop withdrawal by…
My enemy’s enemy
There was a time when New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman accused Pakistan for playing a double game in Afghanistan. Donald Trump also accused Pakistan in 2018 of lying and…
Pakistan and the Afghan peace process
On December 2, the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban announced that they had made a breakthrough in the Intra-Afghan Dialogue. The two parties have concluded a written agreement that…
Conflict of interest
NO one in their right mind could frown upon the prospect of peace breaking out in Afghanistan after a relentless 40-year conflict straddling the 20th and 21st centuries. Nor can…
