Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 03/07/2017 - 05:54
Paper No. 6228 Dated 07-Mar-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan is likely to present the most significant and biggest challenge to US President Trump as China, Russia and Pakistan have new found congruence to muscle into a nation in which the United States has so heavily invested strategically.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 05:50
Paper No. 6220 Dated 08-Feb-2017
Guest Column by Alexander Murray
On 4 February, the UN Security Council (UNSC) agreed to remove Hezb-e-Islami-e-Gulbuddin (HIG) power-broker and former Afghan Prime Minister, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, from its international sanctions list. Having negotiated a truce with HIG and settled on the peaceful terms of Hekmatyar’s reintegration into Afghan civil society, the government of President Ashraf Ghani is sure to welcome the news.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 07:02
Paper No. 6214 Dated 17-Jan-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan seemed to have disappeared from the United States radar in the months to the run-up to US Presidential Elections resulting in a void which the China-Pakistan-Russia Troika has exploited to US disadvantage.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 12/30/2016 - 06:16
Paper No. 6209 Dated 30-Dec-2016
Guest Column by Alexander Murray
Earlier this month, the Afghan government of President Ashraf Ghani made requests of the UN Security Council (UNSC) that Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and his political affiliate, Hezb-e-Islami-ye-Gulbuddin (HIG), be removed of international sanctions.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 11/15/2016 - 04:58
Paper No. 6197 Dated 15-Nov-2016
Guest Column by Alexander Murray
As infrastructure projects in Greater Balochistan come to be, governments across South and Central Asia should prepare for what will most likely turn into the region’s next hotbed of violence. Baloch across the region must be included in regional governments’ decision making processes or investors should prepare for the rural ethnic Baloch to thrust their projects into the dustbins of history.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 08/31/2016 - 07:31
Paper No. 6166 Dated 31-Aug-2016
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan in mid-2016 presents a bleak security picture with the country once again being subjected to series of suicide bombings in Kabul and Taliban again becoming active against the State as part of Pakistan Army’s ISI- directed proxy war against Afghanistan.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/11/2016 - 06:24
Paper No. 6055 Dated 11-Jan-2016
Dr Subhash Kapila
Pages
