Tag Archives: Irfan Yar
India and the Taliban: Time to Engage with Afghanistan’s Reality
By Irfan Yar
India and Afghanistan: A Moment for Strategic Clarity
The phone call between India’s External Affairs Minister and t...
Deporting Afghan refugees Won’t Make Pakistan Safer—It Will Make It Weaker
By Irfan Yar
For decades, Pakistan served as a reluctant but enduring sanctuary for Afghans fleeing war, repression, and foreign occ...
Could Bagram Air Base Shift to U.S. Control? The Uncertain U.S.-Taliban Deal at Play
By Irfan Yar
Reports of a potential Taliban handover of Bagram Air Base to the United States raise critical questions about the evol...
The Death of Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani: Implications for Extremism and Regional Security
By Irfan Yar
Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani, a prominent Pakistani cleric and administrator of Darul Uloom Haqqania, was assassinated in a tar...
How the Taliban Mobilized Popular Support to Survive the United States War in Afghanistan
A Research Paper by Irfan Yar
Abstract
After fighting for nearly two decades and investing an enormous amount of blood and treasu...
“Melian Strategy” Why did the Taliban fight and negotiate at the same time?
By Irfan Yar As the US completes its troops’ withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban has seized the security vacuum to launch massive...
The ‘Father of the Taliban’ Is Dead. What Does That Mean for the Afghan Peace Process?
How will Maulana Sami-ul-Haq’s murder impact the Afghan peace process?
By Irfan Yar November 08, 2018 (originally published in ...