Islamabad – Pakistan should engage with the Afghan Taliban leadership based in Kandahar, the actual seat of power in Afghanistan, as this channel of communication can help Islamabad address its concerns about the presence of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP) hideouts in the neighboring country. Islamabad needs to directly talk to Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah … Read more
By Safdar Sial The militant landscape in Pakistan has become increasingly diverse, with religiously motivated, nationalist insurgent, and sectarian groups gaining momentum. This shift has been particularly noticeable since the rise of the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan. At a time when a major shift is happening in the militant landscape of the country and a … Read more
By Ahmed Ali 1. Introduction In the heartland of Taliban’s Afghanistan, discord over how to run the country plagues the theocratic regime. The so-called Islamic Emirate is highly secretive and its internal affairs are largely hidden from the prying eyes of the world. However, the present political landscape in Kabul reveals a semblance to the … Read more
By Mansoor Ahmad Khan and Tahir Khan Pakistan and Afghanistan are two inter-connected neighboring countries. For centuries, the people of the two countries have remained tied together through bonds of common culture, ethnicity, religion, history and geography. The 2,600-kilometer-long Pakistan-Afghanistan border traverses through an area with around 50 million Pashtuns[1] living on both sides. … Read more
By Amir Rana & Safdar Sial 1. Introduction and historical background[1] India has remained a key factor in Pakistan’s Afghan policy. Bilateral relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have always been more or less uneasy since the former’s independence in 1947, which many attribute to Indian influence in Afghanistan from early on. Since the signing of … Read more
Over the past couple of decades, bilateral relations between China and Afghanistan have evolved from being minimalistic to becoming considerably deepened. This has happened primarily due to China’s growing economic as well as linked security interests in Afghanistan and the wider region. China-Afghanistan ties have mainly played out in the domains of trade and development, … Read more
Islamabad— Pakistan should avoid seeing its relations with Afghanistan from the lens of security as there is widening mistrust between the two countries both at the state and people-to-people level. Pakistan must abandon its approach towards the war-torn country by conditioning the promotion of trade activities between the two countries with the resolution of security … Read more
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By Zaigham Khan The Afghans love Pakistan’s national poet Iqbal so much so that one may confuse him for an Afghan due to his Persian poetry that celebrates the majesty of Afghanistan’s mountains, character of its people and nobility of its heroes. In his eulogy of Ahmad Shah Abdali, Iqbal calls Afghanistan “the heart of … Read more
By Sami Yousafzai Afghanistan has endured more than four decades of protracted conflict that entailed foreign invasions, civil wars, and sprees of terrorist violence. There is yet no clue of a certain and secure future for its nearly 40 million inhabitants. The fall of Kabul and departure of former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani were significant … Read more