Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 01/15/2020 - 06:40
Paper No. 6534 Dated 15-Jan-2020
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan already suffering the tyranny of its geostrategic location generating Major Powers’ conflicting rivalries and if the decades-long disruptive strategies against it by its meddlesome neighbour Pakistan were not enough now stares at a turbulent Islamic neighbourhood with implications of pushing distant any chances of peace and stability.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 09/09/2019 - 11:31
Paper No. 6490 Dated 9-Sept-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
That the United States cannot consign Afghanistan to Taliban medieval Islamist feudalism finally and ironically dawned yesterday on the United States with US President Trump calling off the US-Taliban Peace Dialogue in motion for over a year. It marks the ‘Advent of the Inevitable’—that United States cannot abandon Afghanistan to yet another Civil War.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 08/27/2019 - 11:03
Paper No. 6585 Dated 27-Aug-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The United States policy establishment long used for decades to view South Asia with Cold War mindsets which predicated according strategic equivalence to Pakistan with India despite India’s asymmetrical predominance finds the United States in 2019 inadequate in realistic appraisal of strategic imperatives for respecting India’s strategic sensitivities.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 14:53
Paper No. 6579 Dated 5-Aug-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The United States perspectively seems headed for an inglorious military exit from Afghanistan prompted not by any significant military failures against Taliban but a military exit ordered by US President Trump for reasons politically expedient related to his bid for re-election as US President for a second term in 2010.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 04/08/2019 - 04:58
Paper No. 6422 Dated 8-April-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
US Special Envoy on Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad skipping India as he cavorts across other regional capitals from Islamabad to Amman to broker a peace settlement with Taliban raises crucial questions whether it is the US deliberate policy to side-line India from Afghan peace process or is it the personal proclivity of Khalilzad reported to be tilted in Pakistan’s favour.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 03/30/2019 - 09:34
Paper No 6417 Dated 30-3-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Pakistan’s deep frustrations in March 2019 on Afghanistan stand manifested by Pakistan PM Imran Khan calling for installation of an Interim Government in Kabul. United States needs to evidently note that Taliban has no capability to over-run Afghanistan and Pakistan is seeking in 2019 a back-door entry for Taliban in Afghanistan’s governance.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 03/06/2019 - 10:40
Paper No. 6405 Dated 6-Mar-2019
By S. Chandrasekharan
When work was begun on Shahtoot dam on Kabul River that would provide drinking water to the burgeoning population of Kabul City, there has been protests from Pakistan that the dam would reduce the water flows into Pakistan. The Dawn in one of the articles has alleged that there could be a drop of 16 to 17 percent of water in the Pakistan side.
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