Why the world should be concerned about India's recent ele...
April 1, 2022
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By: Arif Rafiq
Nearly 90 million voters took part in the elections that came to a close this month in India’s Uttar Pradesh state, making them the wo...
Don’t blame Khalilzad for the Afghanistan debacle
October 28, 2021
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By: Arif Rafiq
Zalmay Khalilzad, special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, testifies before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington on April...
A crisis is brewing between India and China, but this time...
June 17, 2020
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By: Arif Rafiq
It isn’t entirely clear what is taking place along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) that separates Chinese and Indian-controlled territory along...
COVID-19 will leave South Asia poorer, weaker and less dem...
June 4, 2020
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By: Arif Rafiq
The coronavirus pandemic, at least in its first wave, is not expected to peak in South Asia until July. But countries in the region, which have yet to...
Coronavirus is pushing Afghanistan toward a political cris...
April 20, 2020
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By: Arif Rafiq
Fate has been cruel to the average Afghan over the past four decades. The country’s story, from the Soviet invasion to today’s Taliban ins...
America is making a bad bet on India
February 4, 2020
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By: Arif Rafiq
The cultivation of India as a strategic bulwark against a rising China has been a core feature of the Asia policy of successive US administrations.
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Takeaways from the Indian elections: an overview
Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
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The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The first thing is that...
