... country by March 31. However, there are thousands of Afghan nationals who have received Pakistani citizenship through different, albeit unfair, means and channels.
Today’s Pakistan laments over the Taliban’s good relations with India. After the Taliban Afghanistan takeover, Pakistan faced a rise in terrorism; more recently, Pakistan ranks second among countries on the Global Terrorism Index. Inside Pakistan, increasing security issues and the rise of militancy are major concerns for Pakistan’s strategic ...
... or use the more palatable term “sabotage,” since the methods of anti-Taliban groups and ISIS are virtually identical.
The second scenario is undoubtedly pessimistic. External actors with vested interests might exploit the lingering uncertainty in Afghanistan and finance “anti-Taliban” or terrorist groups. Heightened activity by these groups would cause instability across the country to rise, resulting in a decline in Afghanistan’s economic cooperation with regional partners. The country could then face some degree of isolation ...
Report No. 85 / 2023
Report No. 85 / 2023
The Taliban’s (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) rise to power in Afghanistan in August 2021 and the conflict in Ukraine have both had an impact on regional trends in the Middle East. This report sheds light on the transformation of new elements in Middle Eastern state relations and examines the changing role of key ...
Report No. 80/2022
Report No. 80/2022
The report by RIAC and Peking University’s Institute for International and Strategic Studies on Russian-Chinese cooperation in ensuring security in Afghanistan provides a general assessment of the security situation in the country following the withdrawal of U.S. forces in August 2021. This report highlights Moscow and Beijing’s interests in supporting stability in Afghanistan, as well as the means ...
... new Afghan regime is closer. They are more willing to help the new Afghan regime achieve stability and establish normal relations with the international community. The United States, however, has alienated the new Afghan regime being suspicious of the Taliban rule. Afghanistan’s politics have changed fundamentally and the country’s development is set on a totally different trajectory.
The regime change in Afghanistan has transformed the context and agenda of the Afghan issue. On the one hand, it makes the Afghanistan ...
The international community may benefit from Russia’s experience in promoting domestic consensus in Afghanistan
It has been some three months since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, precipitously and without large-scale bloodshed. This came as a complete surprise for the global community—but for the Taliban just as well, although this was what they had long been striving for. Perhaps, this could explain the contradictory ...
... caused by the United States left in the hands of the Taliban a huge stockpile of small arms, as well as many light armoured vehicles and lorries, communications equipment, and aircraft.
At the same time, all these weapons supplied by the Americans to Afghanistan for the counter-guerrilla war do not provide the Taliban with any real chance of successfully invading adjacent territory. There they will have to face powerful regular armies without relying on massive support from the local population.
The main threat is the use of Afghanistan as a base to destabilise ...
According to the expert, statistics from recent years show that annual assistance to Afghanistan amounts to about five billion US dollars, but this sum is not enough to satisfy the needs of the country’s population
Afghanistan may face a food crisis under the Taliban (outlawed in Russia) rule because this movement is under sanctions of both individual states and the United Nations, Andrei Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, told TASS on Monday.
"A food crisis and famine ...
Restrictive measures against the Taliban now affect the country as a whole
The fall of the Afghan government amid the withdrawal of American troops and the capture of most of Afghanistan by the Taliban raised a number of questions regarding international and unilateral sanctions. Since 1999, the Taliban have been under UN sanctions. Restrictive measures have been applied to the movement by the United States, the European Union and a number of ...
... in June
of plans to militarily manage the security at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport with U.S. financial support incensed the Taliban.
By not consulting or informing the powerful Islamist group on such a major issue in a post-withdrawal Afghanistan, Turkey signaled its view of the Taliban as inimical non-state actors lacking the stature to act upon the pretext of Afghan sovereignty. Indeed, President Tayyip Erdogan accused the Taliban of the
‘occupation’
of the Afghan territory in response to their warnings that Turkey’s ...
