TopicPakistani Taliban

Topic: Pakistani Taliban

Beijing’s Afghanistan gamble: Can emerging China-Taliban-Pakistan triangle deliver peace?

Davood Moradian - 30 March, 2022

China should support an inclusive process in Afghanistan. The alternative would be either a permanent black security hole or an Islamist dystopia on China’s doorsteps.

China needs a stable Afghanistan. But why achieving that is easier said than done

Vinay Kaura - 22 March, 2022

If Beijing achieves even a modicum of success in keeping Afghanistan stable and helps Taliban manage economic problems, it will be a huge propaganda victory for China.

Pakistan’s Lal Masjid is back in news. This time with a Taliban flag

Nidhima Taneja - 19 September, 2021

A video clip of Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz threatening policemen that Pakistani Taliban will not spare them has gone viral.

What happens in Kabul won’t stay in Kabul. US can get ready for challenge across Muslim world

Husain Haqqani - 29 August, 2021

Having failed to manage its exit from Afghanistan well, the US must now focus on the second order consequences of its disastrous endgame.

Taliban leaders like Mullah Baradar have no real interest in Kashmir

Tara Kartha - 23 August, 2021

For the foreseeable future, the Taliban leadership will be too busy settling scores, grabbing ministries, and fighting off potential challengers to bother about India.

India trained Afghan forces who joined Taliban govt. They can now be our ambassadors

Lt Gen Zameer Uddin Shah - 19 August, 2021

India should not be timid to depend only on backchannel communications with a 'government' that may soon secure recognition from a sizeable number of countries.

I am the spiritual leader of Taliban. My boys will rule Afghanistan again after 20 years

General Twitter - 18 August, 2021

I, General Twitter, keep reading Western propaganda that Taliban don’t care about women rights, human rights or any rights. That is right, I have trained my warriors for better stuff.

If ‘sanction Pakistan’ is difficult to achieve, UN can go for the Army and Taliban

Tara Kartha - 12 August, 2021

UN may be a quarrelsome talk shop, but it has a lot of power. The trouble is, sanction is all about politics.

Blinken can clear air on India’s Af-Pak dilemma, but Modi-Jaishankar need the Middle Path

Jyoti Malhotra - 27 July, 2021

Even if the US is looking at the cases of sedition and infringement of freedoms under Modi govt, it will hardly seek to antagonise India. For the moment, Modi’s China gamble has paid off.

China will need to sift through a long list of suspects attacking its citizens in Pakistan

Tara Kartha - 19 July, 2021

There is a very serious threat knocking at the gates of Pakistani establishment, and it’s well inside the country. China is not going to like that at all.

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