Withdrawal symptoms
Barack Obama’s speech to military cadets at West Point this December was intended to send a clear message to the American people, but to the Afghans and countries in the region, the message was mixed...
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India should extend its role in Afghanistan
After the third major attack against Indian nationals in Afghanistan by terrorists on February 26th, 2010, India’s National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon visited Kabul to review the security...
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Kasab, denial and conspiracy Jang’s editorial on May 5th reacted to the verdict of the Ajmal Kasab trial by alleging that the manner in which the trial was conducted raised questions on the legal...
View ArticleThe murder of Khaled Khawaja
In early April there were reports that Khaled Khawaja, a former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officer and retired Pakistani air force officer had been kidnapped along with Sultan Amir Tarar,...
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The flotilla card Fawwad Subhi writes a provocative article in Palestine’s Firas Press about the recent Gaza flotilla raid. He says that the Arabs and Muslims have reacted with anger against Israel’s...
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Pakistan must come clean
Handing over the Taliban leadership should be the next step. The daring covert American operation that assassinated Osama Bin Laden under the nose of Pakistan’s military establishment has sparked...
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Why India matters in Afghanistan
Development assistance at a decisive moment In the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, voices in Washington are becoming increasingly critical of America’s military engagement in Afghanistan. Recognising...
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Deep insight into the Haqqani Network
Haqqani Network is at the centre of a nexus of jehadi violence in a triangle of relations with the Pakistani Taliban, the Pakistani military and al-Qa’ida. Charlie Wilson, the gaudy US congressman from...
View ArticleA deadly line
William Dalrymple’s triangulation error. Earlier this week, Brookings published a slickly produced essay on Afghanistan by British author William Dalrymple on its website. The sophisticated aesthetic...
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A dangerous narrative
For Baloch nationalists, the battle of narratives is as important as the struggle on the ground because classification of the Baloch struggle with the regressive TTP will do them more harm than any...
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Pakistan: the deer in the jihadist headlights
As unhinged as Mr Nawaz Sharif’s antiterrorism policy is, his bigger problem seems to be a military still working through its good/bad Taliban paradigm. The more things change in Pakistan the more...
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China’s post-2014 Afghanistan strategy
China’s approach to violent non-state actors is unlikely to make India or the United States happy. As the United States draws down its combat troops from Afghanistan, other countries have stepped to...
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Impact Balochistan
The movement of IDPs and potential militants into Balochistan will prove to be disastrous for the province with serious implications for regional security. On June 15th, 2014, the Pakistani Armed...
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Foreign policy in transition
A review of Arijit Mazumdar’s Indian Foreign Policy in Transition: Relations with South Asia Indian foreign policy was given renewed vigour by newly appointed Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s invitation...
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Diplomatic Warfare?
Warrior Diplomat takes the reader from corridors of power in the White House and the Pentagon to mud brick qalats and bullet-scarred abandoned schoolhouses in Afghanistan and back again. There is an...
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The losing war against ungoverned spaces
We are now living in an era where ungoverned spaces, long the accomplice in jihadist activity, are playing a starring role. One of the biggest counterterrorism concerns for the United States and its...
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Pakistan’s tenuous relationship with violent non-state actors in Afghanistan
Understanding this dynamic is critical to a path to peace in Afghanistan. Following the news confirming Mullah Omar’s death, analysts have evaluated that internal rifts in the Taliban would derail the...
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Can China stabilise AfPak?
To be successful, the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) needs a stable Afghanistan and normalisation of India-Pakistan links to achieve its potential. The eruption of a war of words between...
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