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  • Afghanistan’s Resurrection from Islamic Fundamentalism
    Subhash Kapila.    ·   17 Feb, 2002    ·    #698    ·    Commentary    
    Afghanistan as a nation was snuffed out by the Taliban.  For six long years, the Taliban imposed the most savage and medieval form of Islamic fundamentalization on Afghanistan . In fact, it was so repressively brutalized by the Ta ...
  • Afghanistan: The Way Ahead
    .    ·   31 Dec, 2001    ·    #675    ·    Commentary    
    Panelists: AK Verma, IP Khosla & KK Mitra       Anand Verma opened the session with an historical overview of the current situation in Af ...
  • The Fall of Taliban
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   31 Dec, 2001    ·    #672    ·    Commentary    
    No one expected that the Taliban would fall so soon. What were the reasons that led to the fall of the Taliban? How is it possible that the Northern Alliance (NA), which is highly fragmented within, been able to advance rapidly, in a month’s ti ...
  • N-Weapons against Afghanistan
    PR Chari.    ·   10 Dec, 2001    ·    #659    ·    Commentary    
    US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, is reported [Hindustan Times, 30 October 2001] to have said, “The 5000-pound bombs are going to be able to do the job of hitting the Al-Qaeda in their underground facilities.” But when presse ...
  • The Impact of Afghan Developments in the Asia Pacific
    Dr. Subhash Kapila.    ·   15 Dec, 2001    ·    #663    ·    Commentary    
    The Asia Pacific?s political landscape has changed significantly after the Islamic Jehadi terrorist bombings in US on September 11, 2001, and the subsequent American military operations in Afghanistan .?   ? This region, par ...
  • Afghanistan: Getting the Political Considerations Correct
    Maj. Gen. Ashok Krishna (Retd).    ·   22 Nov, 2001    ·    #646    ·    Commentary    
    The campaign in Afghanistan against terrorism has entered the phase involving ground troops. Hence, the need for bringing political considerations about Afghanistan ’s future into sharper focus. There is considerable vagueness at ...
  • The Afghan Conflict and Chinese Concerns
    Sonika Gupta.    ·   22 Nov, 2001    ·    #645    ·    Commentary    
    China ’s reserved participation in the “global coalition” against terrorism has been criticized by the Western media. However, its response is no different from that of the more forthcoming members of the coalition. China ...
  • The Taliban “Split”: Forking a Knife
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   22 Nov, 2001    ·    #643    ·    Commentary    
    One major war effort of the West and the Northern Alliance inside Afghanistan was to split the Taliban. The West, led by the US , has been using at least three strategies to achieve this.      First ...
  • China and the Afghan Crisis
    Abanti Bhattacharya.    ·   22 Nov, 2001    ·    #639    ·    Commentary    
    China has maintained a low profile regarding the Afghan crisis after the terrorist attack on September 11. It is being cautious and has adopted a pragmatic attitude towards the crisis. This cautiousness is informed by its policy towards the A ...
  • The US and the Taliban: Remembrance of Things Past
    Prof. RVR Chandrasekhara Rao.    ·   10 Nov, 2001    ·    #633    ·    Commentary    
    The slow progress of US military action against Afghanistan is causing embarrassment in Washington .  Poor strategic insight into the Afghan imbroglio accounts for this.  Over four weeks into the punitive air strikes, ...
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