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  • Afghanistan's Opium War
    Mohan K Tikku.    ·   20 Mar, 2005    ·    #1676    ·    Commentary    
    President Hamid Karzai may be doing well as the ruler in Kabul, but the Afghan drug lords seem to be doing even better in the countryside. The latest figures put out by the US State Department as well as the UN International Narcotic Control Board ...
  • Afghanistan and Central Asia
    .    ·   18 Feb, 2005    ·    #1649    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: R. Grant Smith, Senior Fellow at Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University. Chair: P R Chari, Research Professor, IPCS P R Chari The chair welcomed R. Grant Smith, a long ...
  • War on Terror and Revival of Drug Trade in Afghanistan
    Sanjay Kumar.    ·   30 Nov, 2004    ·    #1565    ·    Commentary    
    The War on Terror launched by the US in Afghanistan after the attack on the twin towers managed to change the regime in that country. It also improved the security situation in South Asia and the neighbouring regions but has failed to establish fun ...
  • Post-Afghan Elections: The Long Road Ahead
    Shanthie Mariet D'Souza.    ·   03 Nov, 2004    ·    #1549    ·    Commentary    
    Afghanistan's rendezvous with democracy on 9 October, amidst vows by the remnants of the Taliban to disrupt the Presidential elections, was relatively peaceful. There was a general sense of foreboding among Americans that on the polling day, th ...
  • Afghan Refugees in Pakistan and Their Post-9/11 Developments in Repatriation
    R Ramasubramanian.    ·   15 Mar, 2004    ·    #1336    ·    Commentary    
    Present-day Pakistan has been a haven for refugees from ancient times and many peoples have passed through this land, Afghans have been the single largest group. Afghan refugees had fled to Pakistan in 1978, after a communist government seized powe ...
  • Political Future of the Taliban
    Razia Sultana.    ·   04 Mar, 2004    ·    #1325    ·    Commentary    
    The Taliban have been on the run in Afghanistan since American military action began against them in October 2001. While they may no longer be at the center of power some unease still persists in the minds of many, particularly about their future r ...
  • Afghanistan: The Forgotten Front against War on Terror
    Niraj Kumar.    ·   07 Jan, 2004    ·    #1266    ·    Commentary    
    The capture of Saddam Hussein by coalition soldiers brought smiles on the faces in the American camp on the eve of Christmas and New Year. However, there is an absence of similar mood of optimism on the second front against terrorism. Afghanistan is ...
  • Disarmament and the Afghan Dilemma
    .    ·   02 Jan, 2004    ·    #1264    ·    Commentary    
    Some 502 delegates are attending the ‘Loya Jirga’ (grand assembly) in Kabul to ratify the draft constitution. Even as divisive issues could spoil this ...
  • Indian Presence in Afghanistan
    .    ·   31 Dec, 2003    ·    #1262    ·    Commentary    
    The two Indian workers, P. Murali and G. Vardharai, kidnapped on 9 December 2003, were released by their captors, believed to be either Taliban militia or local armed gangs, on 24 December. The abductors had earlier demanded release of some 50 impr ...
  • Afghanistan: Pain under the Veil
    Saji Cherian.    ·   17 Dec, 2003    ·    #1247    ·    Commentary    
    Vida Samadzai, a dark-eyed brunette of the Pashtun tribe who fled Afghanistan with her family in 1996, stepped out in a red bikini at an international beauty pageant as Miss Afghanistan, professing to make the world aware of “Afghan women tal ...
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