Musa Khan Jalalzai

The frustration being felt by the US due to the unwinnable war in Afghanistan was clearly evident in the speech by Mr Robert Gates in Brussels in which he threatened to leave the NATO alliance as its member states were not willing to provide sufficient funds and troops for Afghanistan. The US defence secretary criticised […]

On May 16, 2011, a rogue Afghan police officer killed five British soldiers, and injured six. An addict, Gulbuddin, killed his colleagues at a checkpoint in Helmand province. This is not the first time criminal elements within the Afghan National Army and police have killed their British partners; they killed several NATO and US soldiers […]

Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have remained strained due to the Durand Line dispute. Successive Afghan governments refused to recognise the Durand Line as a legitimate border between the two countries. The borderland is predominantly inhabited by Pashtun tribes who were divided by then Afghan ruler Abdul Rahman Khan’s wrong decision in 1893. This issue […]

On April 27, 2011, a frustrated Afghan Air Force pilot killed eight coalition troops and one civilian contractor at Kabul International Airport. Afghan pilot, Ahmad Gul, who served in the air force for over 30 years under the communist regimes, was a poor man suffering from frustration and anxiety. As he had not been paid […]

The three decades of civil war in Afghanistan caused state failure, linguistic conflict and the ethnicisation of politics. After the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, Afghanistan experienced new patterns of ethnicisation, discrimination and violence. The brutal rule of the Taliban from 1996 to 2001 scattered the ethnically embroiled mosaic of the country, undermined […]

Civil war in Afghanistan vastly changed the traditional political process and created an imbalance in power sharing among various ethnic players. After the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country, a new phase of civil war began among various factions, which proved more destructive than the Soviet military intervention. The power shift from Pashtuns to […]

The issue of mutual distrust between the US and NATO and the Afghan National Army (ANA) and the killing of innocent civilians by the US-led coalition forces, has been a matter of great concern for Afghan politicians. The rising power of the Taliban insurgency, desertions of Afghan army soldiers, ethnic and sectarian rivalries and massive […]

Radicalisation and the sectarian divide in Pakistan and Afghanistan have become hot topics of debate in the intellectual circles of Europe and South Asia. Unfortunately, violent extremism and radicalisation have taken deep roots in Pakistan due to a mistaken set of views about the true message of Islam. Poverty and lack of freedom of expression […]

Afghanistan has suffered from a quarter century of civil war, torture, humiliation and foreign intervention. The devastation wrought by warlords, drug lords, and ethnic and sectarian conflicts has resulted in the collapse of a hardly existing state and its institutions. Afghanistan was a poor and weakly functioning state before it was engulfed in persistent conflict. […]

By the end of 2010, a series of events and rapidly developing threats of cyber terrorism across Asia and Europe created an alarming situation. To counter the looming threat of cyber terrorism, many states have decided to make some immediate improvements in their cyber security strategies. Indian cyber attacks against Pakistani state institutions, Pakistan’s cyber […]