Last week on December 27, Russia, Pakistan and China held a trilateral meeting on Afghanistan in Moscow that the Afghan government was not represented at. The three countries...
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Afghan Weekly (Dec 17 – Dec 23, 2016)
Pakistan's acting permanent representative to the UN, Nabeel Munir, while speaking in a debate about the situation in Afghanistan in the UN Security Council this week, stated...
Afghan Weekly (Dec 10 – Dec 16, 2016)
The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan has offered new demands for ending their insurgency in the country this week, including direct talks with the United States. Their new...
What is Modi up to? 10 pieces of advice
Modi would do well to listen to the spectrum of opinion at home and in the region Indian hardliner party Shiv Sena, according to an editorial in Saamana, wants Prime Minister...
Afghan Weekly (Dec 02 – Dec 09, 2016)
Following the one-day Heart of Asia ministerial conference in Amritsar, India, on December 04, 2016, 14 countries in the region adopted a declaration and called for an immediate...
Need for new Afghan policy
Owing to chequered relations with Afghanistan, Pakistan could never develop a comprehensive Afghan policy. A common perception ran through all governments from 1947 to 1979 that...
Why has Afghanistan fallen into the abyss?
October 7, this year, marked 15 years of US invasion of Afghanistan and its - still ongoing - war on terror post 9/11 attacks. With little, or no, progress over the years, the...
Afghan Weekly (Nov 25 – Dec 02, 2016)
Recent surges in casualties among children and women caused by Taliban’s militant attacks, as well as the group’s willingness to consider peace negotiation talks, seems to have...
Instead of trading bullets, try a truck full of walnuts
8 years of cross-LoC barter has been the strongest CBM despite hostilities If there was one thing that could be celebrated as an achievement in India and Pakistan relations on...
Brinkmanship there, restraint here?
Despite escalation at the LoC, the army is exuding confidence. Pakistan summoned the Indian deputy high commissioner yet once again on Nov 22 to protest “unprovoked firing” that...
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