The Mythical Jungle
The jungle operates on a simple principle – it grows back. No matter how one attempts to create a semblance of organization, it has a tendency for chaos to grow back. This is the...
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A glance at Afghanistan after Taliban War: A State of Broken Democracy
Introduction On 15 August 2021 Afghan capital, Kabul captured by the infamous jihadist, fundamentalist Islamic group known as the TALIBAN after the US army decided to withdraw its forces from the country after a...
Rhetoric vs. Reality – China’s Diminishing Ambition in Afghanistan
The unpremeditated United States retreat from Afghanistan following the August 15, 2021 capture of Kabul by the Taliban had many observers assume that the vacant space unceremoniously left by the West after two decades...
Top challenges for Indian Foreign Policy in 2023
In former Indian Foreign Secretary – Nirumapa Menon Rao’s words, “The foremost task of India’s foreign policy is to enable the domestic transformation of India. And by this, we mean making possible the transformation...
Crisis Point: Afghanistan’s Bleak Future under the Taliban
15th August is an important date; it marks India’s Independence and another consequential event- the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan when its then-president Ashraf Ghani fled the country in 2021. The major event...
The Kafkaesque world of Afghanistan
While the world’s largest democracy was celebrating its 75 glorious years of existence, an ode to its magnanimous struggle against an empire on which the sun never sets, not far from New Delhi, an...
Pakistan’s Negotiations with Tehreek-e-Taliban: Heading to Nowhere?
The world witnessed a spectacular turn of events when the Afghan Taliban stormed into the Presidential Palace after the inevitable collapse of the Afghan government which abandoned the citizens in a bid to save...
Why is the Taliban failing state-building?
Introduction All political calculations fell flat post the US pull-out from Afghanistan. In the past, several western political theorists correlate the US involvement in Afghanistan to the Weberian theory of ‘nation state’ and the...
India’s team visit to Kabul is a strategic move and a message to Pakistan
After the Taliban took over Kabul, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed concerns and raised questions about the legitimacy of the new Afghan regime. He wanted the international community to decide on the critical question...
Blast kills more than 50 at Kabul mosque
A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, its leader said, the latest in a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan during the Muslim holy...
