What’s The Future Of Afghanistan After Trump? By Andrew Korybko Russian Special Presidential Representative for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov is fairly certain that President-Elect Biden won’t do much to turn the tide on outgoing President Trump’s drawdown from Afghanistan despite newly promulgated… Read More ›
Has Afghanistan never recognized the Durand Line? By Fidato Back in 1879, Afghanistan’s Amir Yaqub Khan retracted his claim to British control of the Khyber Pass, the Kurram Valley, Sibi and Pishin in exchange for an annual subsidy of “six… Read More ›
Uzbekistan-Pakistan Joint Collaboration for Peace and Stability in Afghanistan By News Desk On 18th November 2020, Area Study Center (Russia, China & Central Asia), University of Peshawar & Center for Global & Strategic Studies (CGSS), Islamabad jointly organised a Roundtable… Read More ›
Is Trump’s Afghanistan Drawdown Driven By Principles Or Machiavellian Motives? Trump’s decision to cut the number of US troops in Afghanistan from 4500 to 2500 raised questions about whether he’s simply fulfilling a campaign promise out of principle or whether… Read More ›
Is Pakistan responsible for Afghanistan’s destabilization? Part-3 Why were Mujahideen unable to capture Kabul even though Kabul’s resistance (backed by Soviets) was on the point of collapse? Why did Soviet Union stop supporting Najibullah and what were the events that… Read More ›
Efforts of Pakistan and Uzbekistan for settlement of conflict in Afghanistan By News Desk On 12th August 2020, Center for Global & Strategic Studies (CGSS), Islamabad & Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies (ISRS) under the President of the Republic… Read More ›
Is Pakistan responsible for Afghanistan’s destabilization? (Part-2) In this part-2 of “Is Pakistan responsible for Afghanistan’s destabilization”, we explain events that led to local Afghans rebelling against Afghan communist Governments and then Soviet Union occupation. We also explain the role… Read More ›
Is Pakistan responsible for Afghanistan’s destabilization? (Part-1) This is the first episode of the three episodes series. In Part-1 we discuss Pak-Afghan history from 1947-79 which is completely forgotten and focus on its impact on the events leading to the… Read More ›
By News Desk On 22nd April 2020, Center for Global & Strategic Studies (CGSS) and Area Study Centre (Russia, China & Central Asia), University of Peshawar jointly organized an “Online National Conference” on the topic “Post Doha Agreement Afghanistan: Implications… Read More ›
By News Desk United Nations Secretary General António Guterres arrived in Pakistan for a three-day visit on Sunday, 16th of February. In a joint press conference with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, he said that he was closely following… Read More ›
