While the United States, along with its allies, left Afghanistan in August 2021 in spectacularly humiliating circumstances, the departure was never entirely complete, nor bound to be permanent. Since then, Washington has led the charge in handicapping those who, with a fraction of the resources, defeated a superpower and prevailed in two decades of conflict….
The challenge ahead is a formidable one that will require the military-intelligence services to fully focus on this newly metastasized terrorist threat in order to emerge victorious, which in turn necessitates their top brass giving them the order to abandon the all-out nationwide crackdown against the opposition. Pakistan’s prior large-scale anti-terrorist operations succeeded precisely because…
The carrot that Kabulov just dangled in his latest interview might not be enough on its own to entice the Taliban to finally make good on its prior promises, but it could form part of a larger package deal aimed at eventually achieving that. Russian Special Presidential Representative on Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov told RTVI…
As you might be aware, the Taliban insurgents who are proscribed in Russia took over the Afghan capital, Kabul, on August 15, 2021, with minimal resistance and have since become the sole governing power in the country. The Taliban have expressed their willingness to engage with the international community, establish an inclusive government with representatives…
On March 7, the western powers huddled together in Paris for a restricted meeting on Taliban and the Afghanistan situation. It was an exclusive meeting of the Special Representatives and Envoys for Afghanistan of Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The random pick was…
The five disadvantageous outcomes of Pakistan’s decision were that: 1) Russia was left wondering why Pakistan conveyed its interest in this event during Kabulov’s trip to Islamabad only for it to not take part; 2) questions are now raised about the sincerity of its rapprochement with Moscow; 3) Islamabad also hinted that bilateral spats with…
