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Joint VIF-RUSI-CICIR Seminar on Afghanistan at Beijing

A trilateral conference ‘China, India, the UK and Afghanistan- A Partnership for Stability’ was held in Beijing from 24 to 26 November 2014 under the auspices of VIF, Royal United Services Institute of UK (RUSI) and China Institute for Con....

December 11, 2014 Conference , Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Conferences , CICIR , RUSI , Afghan National Security Forces , Karzai government
Afghanistan Post-2014: The Pashtun Factor
Amb Prabhat P Shukla

There is an effort among some western commentaries – taken up and amplified by the Pakistanis - to try and project the situation in Afghanistan as a proxy war between India and Pakistan. The drumbeat of this thesis grows as the draw-down of western....

November 25, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Turbulent Past Could Once Again Become Its Future
Sushant Sareen

More than a decade after the US and its allies ousted the monstrous Taliban regime and gave the people of Afghanistan a level of stability and progress that they had not known in decades, it seems that things could well be coming a full circle. Ironi....

November 24, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Political Compromise, Security Challenge and Economic Constraint
Lt General R K Sawhney, PVSM, AVSM, Centre Head & Senior Fellow, National Security and Strategic Studies & Internal Security Studies, VIF

After a keenly contested Presidential election, the result of which came under a serious cloud when Dr Ashraf Ghani Ahmedzai surprised the odds-on favourite Dr Abdullah Abdullah by crossing the half-way mark, it looked as though the all-important pol....

October 09, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Between Brinkmanship and Statesmanship
Sushant Sareen

The worst fears about Afghanistan appear to be coming true. For more than a year now, there was a virtual consensus, not just in the international community but also within Afghanistan, that the future of the country was critically dependent on a cre....

August 05, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Reaping the Whirlwind; Michael Griffin; Pluto Press; PP 283; Price: Rs 1834
Amb Prabhat P Shukla

Afghanistan 2014: Forward to the Past? This is not a recent book, comparatively speaking; it was published in 2001, but remains topical. It covers the rise of the Taliban in the mid- to late-1990’s, and examines the main actors in the rise ....

May 06, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Pashtun , Taliban , Book Reviews , UN Security Council , Osama Bin Laden , Zulfikar Ali Bhutto , America , US East African Missions
The Perception War in Afghanistan: Pessimism is No Policy
Sushant Sareen

During a visit to Afghanistan a couple of months ago, many top Afghan officials and politicians insisted that while the security situation was precarious and the political situation was fragile, the real cause for alarm was not so much the danger of ....

February 06, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Can India and Pakistan work Together?
Sushant Sareen

With the US drawdown (perhaps even complete withdrawal) from Afghanistan looming large over the horizon, there is growing pessimism (a lot of it unwarranted) over the prospect of the Afghan state’s ability to survive without the crutches of foreign....

January 15, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Pakistan
Afghanistan: Security Trends and Implications for India
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

The events in Afghanistan seem to be turning a full circle. ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ that commenced in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is drawing to a close and plans are afoot to hand over Afghanistan to the very forces....

December 26, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Balochistan- The New Regional Tinderbox?
Monish Gulati

On 25 October 2013, the Iranian State News Agency reported that fourteen Iranian border guards were killed and five wounded in clashes with “armed bandits” near Saravan on Iran’s southeastern border with Pakistan. There were also reports of thr....

November 06, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Central Asia , Afghanistan , Pakistan
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