Tag: Afghanistan

The Taliban Takeover of Kabul and Implications for the India-Iran-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan Transit Corridor (Vali Kaleji, The Jamestown Foundation)

The port of Chabahar—located on the Makran coast of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan Province, near to the Gulf of Oman and at the mouth...

CPEC-extension and de-dollarization could help Afghanistan out from under US thumb (Yasir Habib Khan, Global Times)

As agent of chaos, when the US set its sinister foot in Afghanistan, it created chaos and when it left, created further chaos by...

Afghanistan envoy withdraws from UN General Assembly debate (Al Jazeera)

Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United Nations has pulled out of delivering an address to world leaders at the General Assembly on Monday. Ghulam Isaczai, who...

What the Arab Gulf is thinking after the Afghanistan withdrawal (Kirsten Fontenrose, Atlantic Council)

Following the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, three heavyweights in the Gulf are carefully navigating the aftermath—each calculating what it stands to gain (or lose)...

Impact of Developments in Afghanistan on India: A Report (Aakriti Vinayak, Vinod Anand, VIF)

USA’s hasty troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and the subsequent Taliban takeover in Kabul has sent shockwaves throughout the world. The situation in Afghanistan remains...

Qatar Registers its Soft Power Presence in Afghanistan (Anwesha Ghosh, VIF)

The Qatari’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani’s visit to Afghanistan in September marked the first high level visit...

Can the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation make a long-term difference in Afghanistan? (Saaransh Mishra, ORF)

The 21st Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tajikistan’s capital city of Dushanbe on the 16th and 17th of September was attended by leaders of all member states (Russia,...

China’s reluctant Taliban embrace (Pravda Parakkal, East Asia Forum)

On 18 July, Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada said the group seeks strong diplomatic, economic and political relations with all countries including the United States....

Suspending Afghanistan from SAARC and international law (Prabhash Ranjan, ORF)

The meeting of the foreign ministers of the member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), planned on the sidelines of...

How the Taliban benefited from internal rifts amongst Islamic powers in West Asia (Kabir Taneja, ORF)

The three-day long visit of Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al-Saud, to India came at a time when the Taliban had firmed its...

The Afghan Disaster: Lessons our Military must Heed (Deepak Sinha, ORF)

It may seem a case of “I told you so”, but it was predestined that the United States would always lose in Afghanistan. Off...

Afghanistan’s Woes Will Haunt America (Reza Parchizadeh, BESA Center)

Taliban, image by ifpnews CC The American decision to leave Afghanistan to lessen the burden on the domestic economy, protect US troops, boost the nation’s...

Afghanistan Has Lessons for the Gulf (James M. Dorsey, BESA Center)

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, image via Wikimedia Commons The Gulf states will closely monitor the way Russia and China handle the perceived security vacuum...

Economic sanctions on Afghanistan must end, humanitarian aid is of great urgency: Chinese FM Wang Yi (Global Times)

Afghan people stand in line to get money at Aziz Bank in Kabul Afghanistan on September 21,2021. Photo: CFP Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister...

Afghanistan’s health care system on brink of collapse: Tedros (UN News)

WHO/Lindsay Mackenzie. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (centre) speaks to hospital staff at the Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan National Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. The development came as the...

The fall of Afghanistan and its implications for China (Stefanie Kam, East Asia Forum)

The political vacuum left in the wake of the US exit from Afghanistan and swift Taliban takeover is likely to embolden jihadi militant groups,...