Why’d Putin’s Special Envoy To Afghanistan Visit Kabul Amidst Pakistan-Taliban Tensions? By Andrew Korybko Russia is a responsible regional stakeholder and therefore doesn’t want the worst-case scenario of a never-ending Pakistani-Taliban war to transpire, yet it’s powerless to directly shape the… Read More ›
Continued Pakistan-Taliban Tensions Can Indeed Lead To Another Never-Ending War By Andrew Korybko The worst-case scenario is that Pakistan launches even just a limited ground operation into Afghanistan together with relying on US drone strikes either across the border or within… Read More ›
Twenty Truths About Pakistan-Taliban Ties In Light Of Their Latest Tensions By Andrew Korybko Pakistani-Taliban ties are a lot more complicated than most observers assume, especially in light of their latest tensions. They lost control over their security dilemma after their… Read More ›
Shared Threat Perceptions Of The Taliban Catalysed Strategic Pakistani-Tajik Cooperation By Andrew Korybko The continued leadership of the Taliban’s extremist faction poses unacceptable security risks for Pakistan and Tajikistan that impede their vision of comprehensively expanding their mutually beneficial cooperation via… Read More ›
Russia Implied That Pakistan Is Colluding With The US To Blackmail The Taliban By Andrew Korybko The outcome of this Machiavellian policy is that regional security is jeopardized as a result, which in turn endangers Pakistan’s own objective interests even if… Read More ›
Pakistan’s Response To The Taliban’s Claim That It’s A US Military Proxy Isn’t Convincing By Andrew Korybko It’s not surprising that they denied the Taliban Defence Minister’s claim, as is their right to do whether they’re telling the truth or not,… Read More ›
A Dangerous Security Dilemma Is Rapidly Developing In Pakistan-Taliban Relations By Andrew Korybko While the Pakistani-Taliban security dilemma owes its origins to “innocent” misperceptions of the other that were previously manageable since neither suspected that any adversarial third party was meddling… Read More ›
The Taliban Defence Minister Just Called Pakistan Out For Being An American Military Proxy By Andrew Korybko It’s objectively the case that Pakistan’s prior alliance with America against the Afghan Taliban ended up fueling the TTP and other terrorist groups’ war… Read More ›
Russia Should Step In To Regulate Tajikistan-Taliban Tensions By Andrew Korybko Russia has to reassure Tajikistan that it’ll remain safe and stable despite neighbouring Afghanistan’s de facto Taliban-led government and convince its ally that everyone stands to lose if it provokes… Read More ›
Anti-Pakistan Rhetoric: Future Of Pak-Iran And Taliban-Iran Relations Ahmed Quraishi expert on Iran and the GCC region, gives his analysis on the developing situation in Afghanistan. Future of Pakistan-Iran and Taliban-Iran relations was discussed in the light of fall of… Read More ›
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