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Sealing the Durand Line Undercuts Pakistan’s Support for Democracy in Afghanistan
As the U.S.-withdrawal from Afghanistan is expected much earlier than the September 11 deadline, Pakistan has been actively publicizing its fears about a “protracted civil war” ensuing in a post US-withdrawal Afghanistan. In a June interview with the New York…
COVID-19 Vaccination in Afghanistan
Afghanistan is in the first phase of a COVID-19 vaccine rollout, having received only a half million doses of vaccines from India, and 468 thousand under the COVAX program, while around 35 million people are in the queue to receive…
India Should Apply the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda Internally
Two decades have passed since the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted its Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, which calls for the participation of women in peace and security matters, protection and promotion of women’s rights, and integration of female needs…
افغان امن عمل کے مستقبل کا جائزہ
طالبان کو بے دخل کرنے والی افغانستان بون کانفرنس کے انعقاد کے دو دہائی بعد افغان باشندوں کے مستقبل کا فیصلہ ایک بار پھر ایک غیرملکی اجلاس پر منحصر ہے، اس بار یہ اجلاس استنبول، ترکی میں ہونے کا امکان…
Assessing the Future of the Afghan Peace Process
Two decades after the Afghanistan Bonn conference that excluded the Taliban, the future of the Afghan people depends again on a foreign summitry, this time likely one in Istanbul, Turkey. While ordinary Afghans have neither a role in directing the…
India Must Move Towards a Feminist Foreign Policy
In a significant diplomatic victory, India was elected to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as a non-permanent member on June 18 2020. As it assumed its seat in January 2021, India has committed to focus efforts on peacekeeping, peace-building…