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US creates Afghan transit route with counter-narrative in Central Asia

The US President Donald Trump made a significant diplomatic breakthrough in the Afghan war by getting Kazakhstan President Nurusultan Nazarbayev to commit at their meeting in the White House on…

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’60 minutes’ story on Afghanistan highlights 16 years of US failures

Ghani also made a staggering claim of 21 international terrorist groups operating in the country, making Afghanistan less safe. A fifteen minute story on CBS network's famous show '60 minutes'…

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Cutting off Pakistan, US takes gamble in complex Afghan war

By Mujib Mashal and Salman Masood Afghan officials have pleaded with several United States administrations now to reconsider their support for Pakistan, which was both receiving billions of dollars in…

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Pakistan’s asymmetrical response to Trump is a clever way to flip the tables on Afghanistan

By Andrew Korybko Pakistan's announcement that it will seek the expulsion of over 1.5 million Afghan refugees in the next 30 days is being tacitly justified by Trump's tweet and…

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Why the war in Afghanistan is an even bigger defeat than Vietnam

By John Haltiwanger After 13 years of fighting, the War in Afghanistan is finally winding down. American and British forces just withdrew from Camp Leatherneck and Camp Bastion and handed…

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Space programme 2040

The Space Programme 2040 is a satellite development and launch programme of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco), Pakistan's supreme space research authority. The Space programme 2040 intends…

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Ulema put their weight behind antiterrorism edicts

By Kalbe Ali The government on Tuesday launched Paigham-i-Pakistan, a document that offers a counter-narrative to extremist ideas by collating edicts that declare all kinds of terrorism against the spirit…

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Don’t let China start calling the shots in Pakistan

By Tim Willasey-Wilsey The vast size of the proposed China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has players on all sides struggling to calculate the pros and cons for their own interests.…

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Tweets and consequences

By Munir Akram The insult contained in President Trump's new year tweet accusing Pakistan of “lies and deceit” was followed by announcement of the injury  the $255 million cut in…

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Afghanistan – A view from Pakistan

By K. Hussan Zia President Trump and his cohorts are accusing Pakistan of perfidy for taking $33 billion in aid from the U.S and not doing enough in return. First…

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