Opium production in Afghanistan increased this year to one of the highest levels on record as efforts to eradicate the crop in a country that provides much of the world's...
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Deconstructing Modi Agenda for Afghanistan
President Ashraf Ghani made an unexpected visit to India on the Eves of Eid-ul Adha to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After the meeting, Indian Prime Minister pledged an...
Afghanistan in the shadow of the US Presidential Election
As US is entering in to its sixteenth year of its longest war in Afghanistan with no ending point in sight; the two leading US presidential candidates did not show any big...
Losing in Afghanistan
New Pentagon Data Reveals No End to America's Longest War For one and a half decades, the United States and its partners in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)...
Afghanistan: The Informal Colony of India
In an increasing globalised world, secret agencies have become an evermore-important weapon of the state. The impact of globalisation on intelligence cooperation between...
Will the World Keep Funding Afghanistan?
International donors are gearing up to contemplate their financial commitments to Afghanistan once more. The two day conference, which will take place in Brussels next...
Peace With Hekmatyar: What Does It Mean For Battlefield And Politics?
The peace deal signed today by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-e Islami, and President Ashraf Ghani, has been hailed by the Afghan government as the first major peace...
The Afghan Refugee Crisis
Afghan refugees in Pakistan constitute the largest and most prolonged refugee population under UNHCR’s directive. Until June this year, Afghans could enter Pakistan...
Rebuilding Relations With Afghanistan
There is today far less attention by the US on Afghanistan as its focus has shifted primarily towards the civil war in Syria and Iraq. The growing threat of the IS in the...
Afghanistan Stands to Gain from CPEC Option
The United States has spent billions of dollars in Afghanistan to cushion the sinking ship of the landlocked country’s economy, but there are no visible signs of...
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