US, NATO pledge billions to back Afghan forces
ahmed sabirThe U.S. and NATO have promised to pay $4 billion a year until 2024 to finance Afghanistan's military and security forces, which are struggling to contain an advancing Taliban. Already,…
Diplomacy has a last chance for peace in Afghanistan
Development comes in the wake of an escalating cycle of attacks being launched by the Taliban By Rustam Shah Mohmand The visits of the Taliban delegations to Tehran and Moscow…
Use the Afghanistan mess to mess with China in East Turkestan
By Bharat Karnad In a punitive mood after the Islamic extremists whom the US had carefully nurtured and who, in the guise of the Al-Qaeda led by a onetime CIA…
Few metrics support future success for Afghan forces
By Jeff Seldin U.S. officials voicing optimism that Afghan security forces would be able to prevent insurgent Taliban forces from sweeping across Afghanistan may be basing their assessment more on…
A hybrid war to replace Afghan ‘forever war’?
By M. K. Bhadrakumar The British newspaper Daily Telegraph did some kite-flying in the weekend that London is considering open-ended deployment of a contingent of elite Special Forces to Afghanistan…
US weighs possibility of airstrikes if Afghan forces face crisis
The Pentagon is considering whether to intervene with warplanes or drones in the event that Kabul is in danger of falling to the Taliban, though no decisions have been made…
India was, is and will be nowhere in the world
By Bhim Bhurtel After the Narendra Modi-led government's grave failure to combat the explosive second wave of Covid-19, this wave exacerbated by the Delta variant, Western media, think tanks and…
Why American criticism of India might rankle New Delhi
India should brace itself for becoming the victim of what might possibly be America's next Hybrid War By Andrew Korybko Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia…
‘They want our land without us’
Lakshadweep on edge after development bill By Shaheen Abdulla & Ashfaque Ej The Indian archipelago's indigenous population fear eviction after the BJP-led administration pushed a series of draconian laws critics…
Anticipating the fall of Kabul’s government
By Tim Willasey-Wilsey For the Biden administration, an apparently reasonable decision to follow Donald Trump's wish to end the 'forever wars' risks turning into a political disaster. It is now…