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Notes from the Sub-continent – May 2020
Mayuri Mukherjee Article

In this latest compilation of some of the big ideas being debated in the media across the Indian sub-continent, we start with Bangladesh, where the people had to deal with a super cyclone even as they struggled to cope with the novel coronavirus pand....

June 11, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Article , Pakistan , Nepal , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bangladesh , Taliban , Amphan , Twitter , Lipulekha
COVID-19 International Developments: Daily Scan, June 02, 2020
Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF COVID-19 Daily Scan

Economic
China bets on $2tn high-tech infrastructure plan to spark economy
When Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang delivered his government's annual work report in Beijing recently, the $2 trillion new high-tech infrastructure ....

June 02, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Taliban , WHO , COVID-19 Daily Scan , Daily scan , WTO , Infrastructure Initiative , Cash Payouts , Gold Trading , Brent , Kremlin , Travel Bubbles , ICAO
Afghanistan: Taliban abandons the 'peace talks'
Dr Yatharth Kachiar Article

Amid the global pandemic, when the countries are fighting for their very survival, the war in Afghanistan is slowly simmering. On Tuesday, the Taliban directed their negotiating team to end the ongoing discussions with the Afghan government on 'priso....

April 09, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Article , India , US , War , Afghanistan , Terrorism , Taliban , Peace talks , troop withdrawal , COVID-19 , aid cut , minorities , Sikh minorities , Hazara minorities
Continuing Security Partnership between USA and Pakistan: India has to live with it
Gautam Sen Commentary

Dr. Mark T. Espar, US Defence Secretary has in a telephonic conversation with Pakistani Army chief, Qamar Javed Bajwa on 19th March, 2020 reaffirmed his country`s long-term mutually beneficial security partnership with government of Pakistan inter-al....

March 30, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Commentary , Pakistan , Afghanistan , Taliban , Mark Espar , Peace Agreement , India's developmental efforts , Trump's visit to India , Khalizad
West Asia Roundup– February 2020
Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Abstract:
US-Taliban
After a weeklong trial halt in violence by Taliban against US or Afghan targets the Peace Agreement was signed between US and Taliban in Doha that seeks to end the 19 years old war and presence of US for....

March 11, 2020 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Israel , India , US , Saudi , Taliban , Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , Iranian elections , Qatar hosts peace agreement , Idlib conflict , Hosni Mubarak’s death
Afghanistan Presidential Election: Analysing the Preliminary results
Dr Yatharth Kachiar Commentary

Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) has finally announced the preliminary results of the Presidential elections held in Afghanistan on 28 September 2019. The results, though not final, gave a thin majority to the incumbent President....

December 27, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Commentary , Taliban , Afghanistan Elections , Ashraf Ghani , Abdullah Abdullah , UNAMA
RISS-VIF Dialogue on Afghanistan

The Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS), Moscow, hosted Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) at Moscow on 24-25 September 2019, for a two-day Round Table Conference (RTD) on ‘Afghanistan Crisis and the Problems of its Settlement: P....

October 25, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Conferences , Chabahar Port , Taliban , US-Taliban peace talks , Afghanistan Crisis
On The Eve of the Doha Round - Afghan Women Claim Their Space in the Peace Talks
Zulaikha Rafiq Commentary

This is an exceptionally confusing and exciting time in Afghanistan, and (we hope) a turning point in the history of the country. The US and the Afghan government representatives, together with civil society representatives are due to sit across the....

April 17, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Commentary , Taliban , Afghan Women’s Network , Doha , Afghanistan peace talks
Afghanistan Manoeuvres: Sense and Nonsense of Talking to Taliban
Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee

… every stake holder for Afghanistan’s democracy, stability and progress appreciates the severe consequences of the Taliban assuming power … also understand that even in a power sharing arrangement between the legitimate, democratic Government ....

March 28, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Situation in Afghanistan , Taliban
The Afghanistan Conundrum
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)

… for the United States, pushing the Taliban to join peace talks with Kabul is paramount to ending its 17-year long involvement in the war. But perhaps Washington's biggest problem will be figuring out how to balance the Taliban's demand for a comp....

March 07, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Taliban
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