Tagged: TTP

20th August 2022

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...

United Nations / Opinion / Terrorism

7th February 2022

False Promises of UN in Countering International Terrorism

The United Nations Organization (UNO) failed to define “what is terrorism”. The undemocratic structure of the UN Security Council (UNSC) and its VETO power is serving the interests of only P-5 countries Expansion of...

Afghanistan / Geopolitics / Opinion / Pakistan

8th November 2021

The evolving developments in Afghanistan-Pakistan could seriously affect the geopolitical implications and has New Delhi’s concerns too

In the latest development in the Talibanized Afghanistan, Pakistan has once again through its hostile reaction has attempted to emerge as a roadblock in the Kabul peace process. Pakistan National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf...

Pakistan

29th October 2021

Pakistan Islamist group vows to march on capital, gov’t negotiations deadlocked

A banned Islamist group prepared to march on Pakistan’s capital Islamabad despite last minute negotiations with the government that the country’s interior minister said on Thursday evening were deadlocked. Thousands of members of the...

China / Opinion / Taliban

21st October 2021

Why is China engaging the Taliban?

Kabul falling to the Taliban siege snuffed out the last ray of hope to witness political stability and a smooth power transition in Afghanistan. The unilateral US decision of withdrawal from Afghanistan without presiding...

Opinion / Pakistan / Taliban

11th October 2021

The Inanity of Pakistan’s ‘Good’ versus ‘bad’ Taliban plot

Twenty years after 9/11, atop the Presidential Palace in Kabul, the Taliban flag flies high. In one of its first acts after returning to power the Taliban released over 2,300 terrorists from various prisons across ...

Taliban

6th October 2021

AfPak Takes On New Meaning with the Rise of the Taliban

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The attacks on Kabul’s international airport by ISIS’s Afghan affiliate raise questions suggesting a possible paradigm shift in the drivers and expanding geography of political violence. The attacks by ISIS’s Afghan affiliate...

Opinion / Pakistan

3rd September 2018

Tehrik-i-taliban Pakistan: Considerations after 3 years of the school attack in Peshawar

By Rachel Campos[1] and Priscila Lima Pereira[2] On 16th December 2014, the Army Public School[3] in Peshawar Pakistan hit by a terror attack. The school, a place of learning, sharing knowledge and experience...