Tag: Afghanistan

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Open Channels With The Taliban (Bruce Pannier, RFE RL)

A Kyrgyz delegation met with the Taliban's acting Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar on September 23. It took Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan a little...

One Senator’s Plan to Cut Through the Politics and Get Answers on Afghanistan (Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One)

Marines from Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, patrol through a city in Helmand province, Afghanistan,...

Afghanistan: Taliban Severely Restrict Media (HRW)

A member of Taliban special forces pushes a journalist covering a demonstration by women protesters outside a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 30, 2021. ©...

Afghanistan: Rapid decline in public health conditions, WHO warns (UN News)

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the COVID-19 response has also declined and almost half of the country’s children are at risk of malnutrition. Moreover, the agency...

‘Death knell’: Afghan journalists fear new Taliban media rules (Al Jazeera)

In spite of Taliban promises of a “free and independent” media, journalists and media workers have faced detention, physical abuse and torture since the group took...

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...