Tag: Tajikistan
Tajikistan refutes IS claim of “terror attack” that killed 4 tourists
AFP | Authoritarian Tajikistan has called for the first time an incident that left four foreign cyclists dead in the Central Asian country a "terror...
Saudi effort to isolate Iran internationally produces results
James M. Dorsey | Saudi efforts to isolate Iran internationally are producing results in North Africa and Central Asia. Authorities and religious leaders in Tajikistan...
Iraq sentences 19 Russian women to life for joining IS
AFP | Iraq on Sunday sentenced 19 Russian women to life in prison for joining the Islamic State group, the latest in a series of...
Ice-breaker visit of Modi to China; India still insecure about CPEC
News Analysis | Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), to which Pakistan and India became a party in 2017, on the lines of increasing regional cooperation on...
International Community needs to unite to end Afghan war
Asia Maqsood | A declaration calling for an ‘Afghan-led and Afghan-owned’ peace process has been adopted in two-day mega international meeting on March 26-27, 2018...
Is Russia supplying weapons to Afghan Taliban?
News Analysis | General John Nicholson, US Chief commander in Afghanistan has blamed Russia for supplying arms to Afghan Taliban. While not clearly stating about...
Pakistan and Tajikistan to improve trade relations
News Analysis | The honorable Ambassador of Tajikistan, Jononov Sherali has stated that his country wants to improve trade ties and investment relations with Pakistan...
Can China learn from Pakistan’s counterinsurgency operations?
Syed Ali Hadi | Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an international organization (IO) which is the initiative of China's foreign policy in the 21st century. SCO came...
A master-plan to balkanize Pakistan – Part III
Asif Haroon Raja | War against the Soviets Fearing a takeover by the fundamentalists, 40th Soviet Army intervened and occupied Afghanistan on December 27, 1979, killed Hafiz...
ECO: The next big regional alliance?
Ikram Sehgal | Because of superpower rivalry and evolving geopolitical circumstances, a group of countries of this region is coming together in a natural economic...
‘IS-Khurasan Province’ might drag Russia into the Afghan quagmire
Shahid Raza | The U.S. has clearly and squarely lost the war in Afghanistan after 16 years, thousands of casualties, hundreds of billions of dollars...
COAS tells his Afghan counterpart, “your war must not spread out...
News analysis | Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Sunday said Pakistan would not allow the Afghan war to spill into...
Full membership of SCO: What does it mean for Pakistan?
Dr. Zafar N. Jaspal | The regional security is a prerequisite and paramount for national security. Without the mutual trust and trade between/among the regional...
The Afghan Quagmire: Kabul is not the only victim!
Saad Yousaf | Over the last few weeks, the unwieldy Unity government in Kabul has been facing multifaceted challenges. Afghan Taliban’s gains in Northern Afghanistan...
CPEC: Is the sovereignty of Pakistan being compromised?
James M. Dorsey | A leaked long-term plan for China’s massive $56 billion investment in Pakistan, projects the goals of the Beijing’s One Belt, One Road initiative...
Afghanistan’s stubbornness: An obstacle in regional development
Imtiaz Gul | At a May 2015 global forum in Beijing, former President Hamid Karzai had talked of high time to "recommit ourselves to peaceful...
Pakistan & Afghanistan: Victims of each other?
Imtiaz Gul| The same old narratives continue in Kabul and Islamabad and no-one wants to be the first to change them; Afghan officials insist Tehreek-e-...
