India’s unprovoked and sustained firing on the Line of Control (LoC) and the working boundary is a part of its overall strategy to keep Pakistan’s military under pressure. It is...
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Carnage in Ghor: Was Islamic State The Perpetrator Or Was It Falsely Accused?
The Islamic State, holed up in a few districts in eastern Afghanistan, has suddenly popped up in a faraway western province, Ghor – at least according to provincial officials....
Changes Coming for Afghan Peace Council
Afghanistan’s High Peace Council (HPC), the body tasked with forging reconciliation with the Taleban, says it is putting recommendations made at an IWPR conference earlier...
Is Judgment Day Coming For Us Troops In Afghanistan?
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has, since its creation in 2003, been the subject of much criticism. The axe that its critics grind the most is that, despite being...
Horrific Cases of Women Abuse In Afghanistan
The three-decades-long civil war in Afghanistan caused chronic poverty, unemployment, destruction, and mass migration. The US and NATO invasion in 2001 further added to...
Afghanistan Slides to the Brink of Ethnic Warfare
Afghanistan now finds itself falling toward bloody civil chaos – not because of ethnic rivalries, but because of bad governance and a lack of economic progress that could...
The Curious Case Of Sharbat Gula – The Green Eyed Afghan Girl
Pakistan recently faced a PR nightmare when Sharbat Gula – the once famous National Geographic Afghan girl – was deported to her native Afghanistan. Gula was accused of...
If US withdraws, China wonders if it is ready to lead the world
That was the question posed by the nationalist Global Times tabloid in Beijing on Monday. If the United States under Donald Trump gives up its global leadership and withdraws...
Gwadar Augurs New History
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)...
Pak-US Relations in The Trump Era
The most important single event in the Pakistan-US relationship in the last decade was the November 26, 2011 slaughter of over two dozen Pakistani soldiers on the border with...
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