Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 03/06/2019 - 10:40
Paper No. 6405 Dated 6-Mar-2019
By S. Chandrasekharan
When work was begun on Shahtoot dam on Kabul River that would provide drinking water to the burgeoning population of Kabul City, there has been protests from Pakistan that the dam would reduce the water flows into Pakistan. The Dawn in one of the articles has alleged that there could be a drop of 16 to 17 percent of water in the Pakistan side.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 02/09/2019 - 10:56
Paper No. 6489 Dated 9-Feb-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan’s future and decisions thereto are exclusively the preserve of the will of the Afghan people and not within purview of the United States-Taliban Agreements as perceptionaly the Afghan people perceive both the United States and the Afghan Taliban in military occupation of Afghanistan. Major part of Afghanistan under so-called Taliban control is not by choice of Afghan people but by Taliban terror.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 02/01/2019 - 14:17
Paper No. 6488 . Dated 1-Feb-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan’s secure and stable future, however apparently uncertain in 2019, stands more endangered by United States imparting political legitimacy to Afghan Taliban by engaging them in official peace talks in Doha, and which political legitimacy the Afghan Taliban could not acquire by battling against the United States in Afghanistan for two decades.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 04:28
Paper No. 28 Dated 28-Jan-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan’s preferred end-scenario in positive terms of a ‘Stable and Secure Afghanistan’ not materialising after seventeen years of US military embedment arises mainly from United States reluctance to impose deterrent punitive measures on Pakistan Army for its proxy continuous and sustained disruptive activities against the elected Government of Afghanistan.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 12/30/2018 - 14:56
Paper No. 6473 Dated 30-Dec-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan’s geostrategic location and presence of US Forces embedded in Afghanistan provide a sheet anchor for Indo Pacific security on its Western Periphery. Indo Pacific Security template has comprehensively emerged as crucial for US security in 2018 prompting rechristening of US Pacific Command as US Indo Pacific Command.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 12/09/2018 - 05:50
Paper No. 6468 Dated 9-Dec-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Geopolitically in end-2018 the United States finds itself in a policy conundrum on Afghanistan primarily because of the inability of US policy planners to recognise that Afghanistan geographically flanked by Pakistan and Iran as Islamist Sates adversarial to United States complicates effective US embedment in Afghanistan for restoration of stability and security.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 12:15
Paper No. 6450 Dated 23-Oct-2018
R M Panda
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