Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 05/30/2020 - 05:12
Paper No.6587 Dated 29-May-2020
By Dr Subhash Kapila
India should engage the Afghan Taliban only when they make two public official statements that Kashmir is an ‘Integral Part of India’ and secondly, that Afghan Taliban is committed to the creation of Greater Afghanistan incorporating Pashtun Areas of Pakistan’s borderlands.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 04:48
Paper No. 6554 Dated 27-Mar-2020
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Contemporaneously, with the conflictual state of US-China relations, any speculation on emergence of China as an honest broker in Afghan peace processes in the wake of impending US Forces exit from Afghanistan is fallacious and misperceived and thus ignoring US global national security interests.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 03/08/2020 - 11:06
Paper No. 6547 Dated 8-Mar-2020
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan’s much awaited US-Taliban peace deal signed over last weekend perceptionaly emerges as unsustainable as it stands signed under weight of contemporary political pressures on both United States and the Taliban with extreme mutual distrust of each other’s warring opponents still menacingly hovering above the prospects.
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 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.
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