The Pak-Afghan region has the highest concentration of terrorist groups in the world, warns Gen John W. Nicholson, the commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan. In an...
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Education A ‘Beacon of Hope’ In Afghanistan
Education in Afghanistan has historically mirrored the ups and downs of the socio-political upheavals in the country. However, the Afghan people’s demand for quality education,...
Heart of Asia Realignments: India-Afghanistan In Open Courtship As Russia Falls By Wayside
In diplomacy, the subtext is often as important as the text. As the sixth edition of the annual Heart of Asia Conference came to a close on Sunday, between the comments and...
Ghani’s Still Pakistan’s Best Bet
‘Afghanistan is more than the “graveyard of empires.”’ Maureen Dowd once said, ‘It’s the mother of vicious circles.’ While Ms Dowd fails to point out her country’s complicity in...
Afghanistan Will Be the Trump Administration’s First Foreign Policy Crisis
Many hotspots and geopolitical adversaries are constantly in the news and likely at the forefront of the foreign policy issues President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is...
Youth Alone Can Sway the Hope
In the past 35-year-old war, the largest victims who were killed, maimed or traumatized in Afghanistan are mostly young people. Yet, the Afghanistan’s population remains the...
Pak-Afghan Ties
AFGHAN President Ashraf Ghani has become a harsh critic of Pakistan — harsh to the point of outdoing Indian hawks and, seemingly, undermining his own country’s interests. At the...
Old Challenge, New Approach
AMRITSAR reconfirmed Pakistan remains a target of joint criticism by India and Afghanistan. Much of domestic and international opinion by and large concurs with such criticism....
Can Afghanistan Choose Between India And Pakistan?
An overwhelming focus on South Asia’s terrorism problem has been a key highlight during the 6th session of the Heart of Asia ministerial conference which is taking place in...
India Can’t Divide Pakistan, Afghanistan, Says Sartaj
Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said on Sunday Pakistan’s relations with Afghanistan stood firm due to ‘our shared and historical bonds and India cannot...
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