Tag: Taliban

Scenes from Kabul

Arriving in Afghanistan on the second day of the Taliban takeover, Arshad Yusufzai walks you through a war-ravaged land trying to come to grips with a desperate situation and a desperate people

Back to the Future

Pakistan needs to ensure Afghanistan does not prove to be its Waterloo, as it is the United States’, and was the British Empire’s and the Soviet Union’s

Betting on the Taliban

The US has lost both face and credibility in the international community as well as among the impoverished Afghans, by its hasty departure from Afghanistan, without any negotiated settlement with the Taliban. But can the Taliban deliver?

Options for Pakistan

The writer is a former defence minister and defence secretary. He has held major command positions in the Pakistan Army.

End of Empire?

How ironic that within a week of abandoning the project to “emancipate” Afghan women, the Biden Administration faced another defeat: the Texas Supreme Court...

Fallout of Taliban Victory

“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic,” Robert A Heinlein.The United...

America’s cryptic criticism of Indian democracy

In his first official visit to New Delhi, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a cryptic warning about India's democratic backsliding.Civil freedoms and...

The Time of Reckoning

Those attempting to fragment Pakistan along ethnic and sectarian lines are playing a dangerous game

The Long Road to Peace

Reconciliation and peace in Afghanistan will remain an elusive target in 2021

The Writing on the Wall

Is Pakistan equipped to deal with the challenges of a developing new world order, as the US prepares to withdraw from Afghanistan

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