By Sidiqullah Sahel It is believed that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The proverb best fits the current "rulers" of Afghanistan, known as the Taliban or "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan." The group acquired power in the country on 15...
By Sumit Mishra On 27th August 2021, merely twelve days after the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban, a fedayee (suicide bomber) belonging to the Islamic State's local affiliate Islamic State Khorasan (ISK), struck the Kabul International Airport, killing at least 95. This incident resurfaced...
By: Aulia Shifa Hamida President Joe Biden’s defiant speech- in which he conceded that the U.S. presence in Afghanistan was never supposed to be nation-building and to acquaint Afghans with the Western-style democracy- was as a matter of fact at odds with what the erstwhile Senator Biden...
Authors: Bhargava Reddy & Vinay N Bhushan In August, the internationally recognized Afghan government - the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA) - led by President Ashraf Ghani completely collapsed with the capitulation of the Afghan Armed Forces against a marauding Taliban militia. The armed forces and...
Irfan Yar (Originally published on Saturday، August 14، 2021) As the US completes its troops’ withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban has seized the security vacuum to launch massive assaults. The group has unleashed violent chaos across the country and captured more than two-third of the territory,...
While unveiling its long-awaited Afghanistan strategy, the US embraced India and dropped Pakistan as its ally. Broadly speaking, it occurred against the backdrop of the formation of a tripartite alliance of Russia, China and Pakistan. Donald Trump’s move can further push Pakistan towards Russia and...
The Western world likes to profess that it will never again allow draconian regimes to get away with egregious abuses of minority populations … that is, unless China is the perpetrator. The Chinese regime has adopted an oppressive campaign to extinguish the religious and ethnic identity...
Berkshire Miller and Irfan Yar: Amid this tension in the Middle East, Ottawa should be pursuing stronger energy relationships in the Indo-Pacific With the downing of a U.S. drone, the deployment of U.S. forces to the Middle East, and new sanctions on Iran’s supreme leader,...
India’s soft power plays a big role in the Afghan admiration of the Indian media. It is not surprising that India invests in the infrastructure of Afghanistan. As the Sun sets and darkness spread, it is entertainment time for thousands of Afghan households across the country,...
How will Maulana Sami-ul-Haq’s murder impact the Afghan peace process? On November 2, Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, a Pakistani religious leader, was found dead in his residence in Rawalpindi. The radical cleric felt no shame in openly supporting the Taliban in its fight against the Afghan government and...