Two Days to Peshawar: Provocation, Revenge and the Blowback of Pakistan’s Afghan Gamble
On 30 September 2026, Noorullah Noori, acting Minister of Borders, Tribes and Tribal Affairs in Afghanistan’s Taliban-led administration, offered a…
Pakistan’s Afghan deportation drive tests the principle of non-refoulement
For decades, Pakistan was a place of refuge for Afghans fleeing war, political persecution and insecurity. Families crossed the border…
Seeds, Sovereignty and Statecraft: Agricultural Diplomacy and the Burgeoning India – Afghanistan Partnership
Diplomatic history reserves its deepest transformations for moments that arrive quietly. The official visit of H.E. Mawlawi Ataullah Omari, Minister…
Kandahar’s Grip: How Power Consolidation Is Reshaping Taliban Rule
Nearly five years after returning to power, the Taliban has entered a new phase of its political evolution. The movement…
The Taliban’s Afghanistan Is Becoming an Ideological Police State
Nearly five years after returning to power, the Taliban are no longer merely an insurgent movement that seized control of…
Russia, Afghanistan and the New Eurasian Geopolitics
Russia’s relationship with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has completed a startling volte-face. Where Moscow once viewed the Taliban through…
Hydro-politics on the Kunar: India–Afghanistan cooperation tests Pakistan’s nerve
Hydro-politics is fast eclipsing traditional military posturing as the new currency of power in South Asia, where rivers flowing across…
Munir’s Power Games at the Cost of Peace of Afghanistan
Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has accused Army Chief Asim Munir of deliberately sabotaging relations with Afghanistan. In…
Taliban and Pakistan, cracks in the partnership
Taliban and Pakistan, tensions seem to abound between the Pakistan-Taliban relationship. Pakistan, which chairs the Organisation of Islamic cooperation (OIC)…
Concerns for EU: Terrorism in Afghanistan
If Pakistan thought the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan would be a friendly, neighbourly affair, it perhaps…
