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A Big Test for the Taliban
AFTER assuming control of Kabul, the Taliban have apparently initiated a consultation process to form a new government. They are communicating to the world that their…
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Four Scenarios of Afghanistan Under the Taliban
After capturing Kabul at lightning speed—surprising analysts and security experts alike—the Taliban are now poised to assume leadership once again in Afghanistan. A day after declaring…
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The Taliban’s Careful Cheerleaders: Pakistan’s Statements on the Fall of Kabul
Islamabad has always secretly supported the Taliban. Now it is laying the ground to do so openly. As the tragedy of the Taliban onslaught in Afghanistan…
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Inroads for China in a Taliban-led Afghanistan?
With the US in retreat and the Taliban seizing control of Kabul, it looks like Afghanistan and the region will see major security and geopolitical shifts.…
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Biden Was Right
In 2017, I arrived at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Airport as part of a congressional staff delegation. Even though the U.S. embassy stood a mere four miles…
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Twenty Years of Afghanistan Mistakes, but This Preventable Disaster is on Biden
Pundits (including me) love to praise bipartisanship in public policy. The calamity in Afghanistan shows the dark side of bipartisanship: This was a disaster that was…
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Afghans Need a Humanitarian Intervention Right Now
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan should continue. But a new military engagement should begin. In the run-up to the final U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the situation…
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The Only Path to Peace in Afghanistan
Ex-president Najibullah's daughter urges adoption of his National Reconciliation Policy to prevent yet another debilitating proxy war As each day goes by, the Taliban’s forces edge…
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Emerging Threats
GROWING insecurity and violence in Afghanistan are not only reducing the space for intra-Afghan political reconciliation, they are also threatening Pakistan’s border and internal security. Anti-Pakistan…
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Addressing the Core Issue of “Trust Deficit” in Indo-Lanka Relations
The Sri Lankan High Commissioner-designate to India, Milinda Moragoda, has communicated to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, that frequent, multifarious and systematized interactions with India from the top-most…
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Birdshot’ Blinds Hundreds in Kashmir
Covid pandemic, frequent lockdowns worsen the plight of pellet victims Mohammad Ashraf Wani, from south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, was 25 when he was hit in the…
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Back to the Future
AS concern grows in Pakistan about the fallout of the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, protracted fighting that morphs into a civil war will pose severe…