Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 01/06/2021 - 05:20
Paper No. 6726 Dated 6-Jan-2021
Dr. Manoj Kumar Mishra,
While Pakistan kept affirming its commitment to the ongoing exercise of Afghan peace talks, its proclivity towards meddling in the internal affairs of another neighboring sovereign country with an inevitable desire to shape political dynamics there, contradicts its obligations and questions its dedication towards the peace process.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/04/2021 - 10:13
Paper No. 6724 Dated 4-Jan-2021
By Dr. Manoj Kumar Mishra,
Initial steps towards the peace process in Afghanistan were taken in mid-2018 with senior American officials secretly traveling to Doha to open talks with the Taliban. This breakthrough was geared up with the appointment of Zalmay Khalilzad as the US State Department’s special representative for Afghan reconciliation in September 2018. However, each round of talks, though starting out with some optimism, fizzled out, followed by enhanced insurgency and violence.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 05/30/2020 - 05:12
Paper No.6587 Dated 29-May-2020
By Dr Subhash Kapila
India should engage the Afghan Taliban only when they make two public official statements that Kashmir is an ‘Integral Part of India’ and secondly, that Afghan Taliban is committed to the creation of Greater Afghanistan incorporating Pashtun Areas of Pakistan’s borderlands.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 04:48
Paper No. 6554 Dated 27-Mar-2020
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Contemporaneously, with the conflictual state of US-China relations, any speculation on emergence of China as an honest broker in Afghan peace processes in the wake of impending US Forces exit from Afghanistan is fallacious and misperceived and thus ignoring US global national security interests.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 03/08/2020 - 11:06
Paper No. 6547 Dated 8-Mar-2020
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan’s much awaited US-Taliban peace deal signed over last weekend perceptionaly emerges as unsustainable as it stands signed under weight of contemporary political pressures on both United States and the Taliban with extreme mutual distrust of each other’s warring opponents still menacingly hovering above the prospects.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 01/15/2020 - 06:40
Paper No. 6534 Dated 15-Jan-2020
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan already suffering the tyranny of its geostrategic location generating Major Powers’ conflicting rivalries and if the decades-long disruptive strategies against it by its meddlesome neighbour Pakistan were not enough now stares at a turbulent Islamic neighbourhood with implications of pushing distant any chances of peace and stability.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 09/09/2019 - 11:31
Paper No. 6490 Dated 9-Sept-2019
By Dr Subhash Kapila
That the United States cannot consign Afghanistan to Taliban medieval Islamist feudalism finally and ironically dawned yesterday on the United States with US President Trump calling off the US-Taliban Peace Dialogue in motion for over a year. It marks the ‘Advent of the Inevitable’—that United States cannot abandon Afghanistan to yet another Civil War.
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