Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 04/08/2019 - 04:58
Paper No. 6422 Dated 8-April-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
US Special Envoy on Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad skipping India as he cavorts across other regional capitals from Islamabad to Amman to broker a peace settlement with Taliban raises crucial questions whether it is the US deliberate policy to side-line India from Afghan peace process or is it the personal proclivity of Khalilzad reported to be tilted in Pakistan’s favour.
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 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 Sun, 08/26/2018 - 09:56
Paper No. 6415 Dated 26-Aug-2018
By R.M. Panda
The situation in Afghanistan is confusing with the interference of all major powers who pursue their own agenda and their strategic interests. The beleaguered Afghan Government that has been legitimately elected has been fighting on all fronts and doing its best.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 06:48
Paper No. 6363 Dated 09-Apr-2018
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan was posed with mighty challenges on the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent in 1947 wherein Pakistan despite its Islamic commonality with Afghanistan became interposed as a “Hostile Neighbour” between Afghanistan and India which for centuries had civilizational and friendly ties.
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