Sharif flipping Pakistan’s US and China relations
May 25, 2022
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
New Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has the opportunity to reset Pakistan's foreign relations. Image: Screengrab / NTV
In the run-up to Pa...
Rajapaksas down but not out in bankrupt Sri Lanka
April 28, 2022
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Anti-Rajapaksa protests are raging in Columbo as demonstrators call on the ruling clan to step down. Image: Screengrab / NDTV
While the ruling Ra...
Sharif’s big chance to reset Pakistan’s lose-lose diplomac...
April 18, 2022
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
New Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has the opportunity to reset Pakistan's foreign relations. Image: Screengrab / NTV
Pakistan’s re...
China lends Taliban a slow but sure helping hand
April 8, 2022
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
China is sending strong signals it will soon grant official recognition to the Taliban. Image: Getty
Even without formally recognizing Afghanista...
Rajapaksa to blame for Sri Lanka’s economic calamity
April 2, 2022
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Fuel and power shortages threaten to tilt towards a humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka. Image: Screengrab / NDTV
When Sri Lanka President G...
Haqqanis imposing their radical will on Afghanistan
March 29, 2022
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Afghan Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani during his first public appearance since coming to power under Taliban rule, March 6, 2022. Photo: Twitt...
Ukraine war pushes Sri Lanka to brink of default
March 17, 2022
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa addresses the nation after being sworn in on November 18, 2019. Photo: AFP
With the Russia-Ukraine war pushing globa...
How Russia’s war will destabilize Central Asia
March 12, 2022
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Tajikistan and other Central Asian nations are on the fence of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Image: Facebook / Eurasianet
When Vladimir Putin dec...
Pakistan-Taliban fence fight all about the money
March 5, 2022
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Pakistani troops patrol along the Afghanistan border at Big Ben post in Khyber district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on August 3, 2021. Photo: A...
Taliban’s mirror image TTP raising hell in Pakistan
December 23, 2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Tehreek-e-Taliban fighters in a file photo at an undisclosed location. The terror outfit is ramping up attacks in Pakistan. Photo: Facebook / Dawn...
Why China, Russia and US won’t save the Taliban
December 9, 2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Afghan refugees trying to make their way to Europe. Photo: AFP
With nearly half of the Afghan population facing famine as the war-torn nation&rsq...
The Taliban’s unconvincing war on ISIS-K
December 6, 2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
A Taliban fighter watches the Twenty20 cricket trial match being played between two Afghan teams 'Peace Defenders' and 'Peace Heroes' at the Kabul I...
Taliban teetering on verge of economic collapse
November 26, 2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Ever since the Taliban’s military takeover of Kabul, the Afghan economy has gone from bad to worse and could now be headed for a total collapse...
China looks to Tajiks to spy Afghan terror risks
November 12, 2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
A Tajik frontier guard soldier patrols the border Pyandj river at the Afghan border not far from the town of Pyandj some 220 kilometers from Dushanb...
Taliban tells China what it wants to hear on ETIM
August 6, 2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
A demonstrator wearing a mask painted with the colors of the flag of East Turkestan supported by the ETIM takes part in a protest by supporters of t...
Biden faces stay or go dilemma in Afghanistan
January 27, 2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
As new US President Joe Biden works to undo many of his predecessor Donald Trump’s foreign policies and legacies, the outgoing administration&rs...
Rajapaksas marching Sri Lanka towards military rule
January 22, 2021
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Even at the height of the Sri Lankan state’s armed conflict with the rebel Liberation Tigers...
Factors that’ll shape Pak-US ties under Biden
November 15, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
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The ascendance of Joe Biden to the Presidency of the US is being seen as a watershed, expected to produce some significant changes in US...
Biden’s foreign policy will be different except vis-à-vis...
November 7, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
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With Joe Biden likely to become the next US President, the question what concrete changes he will make in America’s foreign polic...
Why Abdullah Abdullah visited Pakistan and India?
November 3, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
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When Abdullah Abdullah recently visited Pakistan and India, the impression was that he,...
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