After the Taliban named an interim government that was regarded as quite controversial inside Afghanistan and did not exactly please the nation’s Eurasian neighbors, I asked Dr. Ejaz Akram, Professor of Religion & World Politics at the National Defense University in Islamabad, for a detailed analysis. He sent me an astonishing, unique essay that is…
Everything depends on which way Iran turns and whether the Taliban can control its own country and stop it short from falling into the abyss. Much has been written about the partners which the Taliban are signing up. But its relations with Iran is the only issue which the whole world is watching with bated…
To put it simply, millions of people’s lives are practically being held hostage by some politically minded members of the international community’s strategic fears about supposedly rewarding the Taliban for not fulfilling their expectations. Afghanistan is approaching the abyss as its impending humanitarian crisis threatens to spiral out of control if it doesn’t urgently receive…
The announcement by Taliban spokesman Zahibullah Mujahid in Kabul of the acting cabinet ministers in the new caretaker government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan already produced a big bang: it managed to enrage both woke NATOstan and the US Deep State. This is an all-male, overwhelmingly Pashtun (there’s one Uzbek and one Tajik) cabinet…
American officials should investigate what’s really going on with this infowar outlet, even if they do so discretely considering how sensitive this provocation is. The EU is generally regarded as subservient to America’s grand strategic interests, but one of its infowar outlets just surprisingly implied a conspiracy about US policy towards the Taliban by hinting…
Observers must avoid over-exaggerating their ties by claiming that they’re either much worse or better than they really are. They’re simply becoming ‘normal’, which is natural after a length of time and understandably includes constructive critiques. Russian-Taliban ties have always been the subject of much intrigue, mostly because the Kremlin neglected to clearly articulate their…
