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SCO Summit and Afghanistan: Looking for a Regional Solution
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s twelfth Summit held at Beijing in first week of June this year deliberated upon Afghanistan at length. Even though Afghanistan has not been either a member or observer of this group President Karzai has been ....

June 18, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Central Asia , Afghanistan
An Insider’s Perspective
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Riaz Mohammed Khan’s book “Afghanistan and Pakistan” adds to the already numerous books available on the shelves on the linked Afghanistan-Pakistan situation. The Taliban-takeover of Afghanistan, the 9/11 terror attack that provoked US military....

March 19, 2012 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Pakistan
Trilateral Summit and The Afghan Endgame
Sushant Sareen

Notwithstanding all the tall talk of closer cooperation between them, the third Trilateral Summit of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan which was held in Islamabad in the third week of February was for all intents and purposes more an exercise in diploma....

March 01, 2012 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Pakistan
Interaction with a U.S. Delegation on ‘US and Indian Roles in Afghanistan’

Representatives from Monitor 360, a US-based consultancy firm executing a project for the US Department of Defence and engaged in research and study of global strategic and analytical challenges, visited VIF on Feb 14, 2012. Their visit ostensibly ai....

February 16, 2012 Conference , International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , US , Afghanistan , Conferences , Taliban , Civil war , US Delegation , Indian Roles in Afghanistan , Asia-Pacific strategy
Peace Efforts Low on Credibility
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The announcement that the Taliban will be opening an office in Qatar should be a cause for some reflection. The US and its allies are politically exhausted and economically drained by the war in Afghanistan. They no longer seek a clear victory; they ....

January 11, 2012 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Pursue an Activist Policy, Reaching out to All Players
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

The US intent to draw down its forces from Afghanistan beginning July 2011 has been articulated on several occasions since President Barack Obama’s address at West Point on 1 December 2009. In this address he had justified the 30,000 US troop surge....

January 02, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy , Afghanistan
The Darkness in Afghanistan
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The West is describing the current situation in Afghanistan as one of transition. This assumes that the situation is moving from one state of things to another in a planned and controlled manner. It is clear that US and NATO want to reduce their mili....

November 16, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Pak The Hurdle on Afghan Issue
Amb Kanwal Sibal

India, on Pakistan’s insistence, was excluded from the International Conference on Afghanistan in Istanbul in January 2010. For the “Process on Regional Security and Cooperation for a Secure and Stable Afghanistan”, the second such conference ....

November 10, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Pakistan
Partners in Strategy - India has done well to Affirm its Stakes in Afghanistan
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The strategic partnership agreement signed by India and Afghanistan on October 4 has aroused considerable diplomatic interest. How should India’s decision to politically escalate its ties with Afghanistan at this juncture be interpreted, and what c....

October 20, 2011 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Getting lost in Afghanistan
Sushant Sareen

It’s 10 years of the ongoing war in Afghanistan. As the US-led NATO forces prepare the ground to throw in the towel, the situation in the region remains as critical as ever. And, it’s unlikely to change until the Pakistan problem is sorted out....

October 10, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
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