Musa Khan Jalalzai

The United Kingdom is offering technical ways and mechanisms for peaceful resolution of ethnic and sectarian conflict to several Asian states including Afghanistan and Pakistan, but the country’s successive governments have never been able to eradicate the roots of extremism, international terrorism, racism, ethnic and sectarian violence in Northern Ireland and Scotland. We often read […]

“There is no government without an army, no army without money, no money without flourishing and no flourishing without good administration and justice” — Ibn Qutayba (a ninth century scholar). Recent analyses of the BBC, International Crisis Group and Foreign Policy magazine about the future of civil war in Afghanistan give us disappointing messages that […]

There are three categories of states: fragile states, crisis states and failed states. Fragile states are susceptible to crises in one or more of their systems. Crisis states are under acute stress where institutions are unable to manage conflicts and economic crisis, and failed states are considered to be collapsed states at all levels — […]

The recent debates about the partition of Afghanistan for peace in London and Washington have received plenty of reactions from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Afghans understand that the old state machine of their country is no more working as it cannot accommodate all ethnic colours within its torn and bruised body. Technocrats believe that all parts […]

Nation-states fail because they are convulsed by internal violence and can no longer deliver positive political goods to their inhabitants — Robert I Rotberg. Newspapers, periodicals and journals in Britain have paid little attention to the question of how to reorganise and reinvent the vulnerable British state. The 20th century British state was among the […]

The story of US war on terrorism in Afghanistan has become more interested while hosts started killings their foreign guests. This is now the war between guards and the guardians. The recent green on blue attacks further caused misunderstanding, which the US and the NATO allies never anticipated. They are in trouble how to counter […]

Last week, the main focus of Nuclear Security Summit was on the possibilities of chemical and biological terrorism in Europe, where experts of these weapons are available in large number. There are speculations that Muslim extremist organisations and the Islamic State (IS) may possibly carry out nuclear, biological and chemical terrorism in Europe. European parliament […]

Debate among the European Union (EU) intelligence experts normally starts with the assumption that without a professional intelligence analysis, law enforcement cannot be made effective. The way of assessing the failure of intelligence involves valuating the accuracy of intelligence analysis and criticising the intelligence for not providing high quality information. In policy-making, the role of […]

The European Union (EU) is a community of different nations with different perceptions, ideologies, cultures, way of life and way of maintaining balance between domestic and international policies. They are committed to protect the union without a common counterterrorism mechanism, intelligence sharing, and foreign policy. More than two decades after the introduction of its common […]

In February 2016, the US intelligence chief claimed that Afghanistan is on the verge of a political breakdown. However, former intelligence advisor to President Obama, James Clapper also told the US Senate that the war-hit country was at serious risk. “Waning political cohesion, increasingly assertive local powerbrokers, financial shortfalls, and sustained countrywide Taliban attacks are […]