by Ozer Khalid* *The author is a Senior Consultant, a Foreign Policy & Counter-Terrorism Expert, a regular Criterion Quarterly contributor and a global columnist. Email [email protected] Twitter verified @OzerKhalid The most effective way for India to curb regional militancy is by granting the deserving Kashmiri people a referendum on self-determination, in keeping with international law and UN […]
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by Ozer Khalid* *The author is a Senior Consultant, a Foreign Policy & Counter-Terrorism Expert, a regular Criterion Quarterly contributor and a global columnist. Email [email protected] Twitter verified @OzerKhalid The Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan ideologically awakens the outlawed anti Pakistan Taliban known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), Daesh or Islamic State Khorasan
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by S. Mushfiq Murshed On 6 September 1995, a mob of a few thousand, “instigated by the ruling Junta”—the Rabbani regime who had lost its legitimacy—set ablaze and ransacked the Pakistan Embassy in Kabul. The ambassador, defence attaché, other diplomats and embassy personnel were injured and a sanitary worker, mistaken for the ambassador, was killed.
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Abstract (America’s longest war came to a formal end with the departure of the last US C-17 half an hour before midnight on August 30. The Afghan war began as a ‘Just War’, with unanimous Global backing, soon it began to lose purpose, degenerated into an “Unwanted War” through to a ‘Wrong War’. There were
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by Ozer Khalid* *The author is a Senior Consultant, a Foreign Policy & Counter-Terrorism Expert, a regular Criterion Quarterly contributor and a global columnist. Email [email protected] Twitter verified @OzerKhalid Abstract The U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the sweeping Taliban take-over and their formation of a caretaker government in September 2021 plants the seeds of uncertainty and risk
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