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Is Pakistan willing to extricate itself from the terrorist hold?
Feb 25, 2019 12:24Pakistan has become the hub of terrorism in the region with terrorists finding safe havens in that country carrying out deadly attacks to kill the citizens of neighbouring countries, such as Iran, Afghanistan, and India. The Islamic Republic of Iran, despite its goodwill towards Pakistan, has been the frequent victim of terrorist attacks from the soil of its neighbour, which continues to ignore the protests from Tehran.
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Afghanistan trade and transit: From dependency to autonomy
Jan 15, 2019 10:17As a landlocked country, Afghanistan has not benefited from sea routes and has never had reliable roads or railroads. At the same time, the harsh policies of neighboring countries, combined with dysfunctional public organizations and inefficient bureaucratic procedures, have further hampered the trade and transit in the country.
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India making inroads in Central Asia
Jan 12, 2019 21:41The year 2018 has ended on a high note for India. With the recent visits of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to New Delhi and Indian President Ram Nath Kovind’s to Tajikistan, as well as Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev expected arrival in New Delhi early this years, India is clearly showing its keenness to engage with the landlocked Central Asian countries, with whom the only safe and sure connection is through the land bridge provided by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Iran offers an alternative to US occupation in Afghanistan
Jan 08, 2019 10:26Iran is offering Afghanistan an alternative to US occupation, one based on peace, dialogue and diplomacy instead of sheer military might, says Nikolai Bobkin, a Ph.D. in military science, and an Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at the Institute for the US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in his article for “Strategic Culture”, titled: “Iran Offers an Alternative to US Occupation in Afghanistan”.
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Trump comes clean... from world’s policeman to thug running a global protection racket
Dec 31, 2018 17:05President Trump’s big announcement to pull US troops out of Syria and Afghanistan is now emerging less as a peace move, and more a rationalization of American military power in the Middle East. In a surprise visit to US forces in Iraq this week, Trump said he had no intention of withdrawing the troops in that country, who have been there for nearly 15 years since GW Bush invaded back in 2003.
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Iran, India, and a new way forward for Afghanistan
Dec 07, 2018 19:09A new strategy for Afghanistan begins in Iran and needs India’s help, says C. Christine Fair, who is Associate Professor at the US Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, in her report for The Diplomat.com, titled: “Iran, India, and a New Way Forward for Afghanistan.”
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Afghanistan takes center stage in the New Great Game
Dec 04, 2018 09:53Moscow hosted talks earlier this month to promote peace in Afghanistan as neighbors and regional heavyweights eye the rewards of stability in the long-troubled land, says prominent Brazilian journalist Pepe Escobar in his analysis for Asia Times titled: “Afghanistan takes center stage in the New Great Game.”
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The drug catastrophe in Afghanistan
Nov 10, 2018 09:33On November 5 yet another US soldier was killed by a member of Afghanistan’s military forces, as the country continues to be wracked by US-orchestrated violence in its seventeenth year of war.
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Polls Over, but What Will US-Occupied Afghanistan Gain?
Oct 23, 2018 10:02What next for Afghanistan after successfully holding the belated elections to the parliament? Will it end the US occupation and destruction of the country?
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Seventeen years later, US has no exit strategy in Afghanistan
Oct 13, 2018 22:04The US which claims to be the sole superpower is badly trapped in the quagmire of Afghanistan and is at its wit’s end on how to save itself.