Pakistan and Turkey are two nations which have had a historic friendship which seems to have bloomed in the past decades. On 2nd April 1954 the countries signed a treaty of friendship, a little after the formation of Pakistan in...
It may be tempting for Nato politicians to shrug at the fate of Afghanistan and urge the alliance to ‘move on’. There is, after all, plenty to worry about nearer to home. But if NATO leaders want to ignore Afghanistan,...
A debate on the human rights situation in Kashmir was organized on 23 September by the backbenchers in the House of Commons of the British Parliament. While the debate itself was full of the usual platitudes by British MPs who...
The announcement of the interim government by the Afghan Taliban on September 7 has reinforced the international community’s concerns about the country’s return to become a terrorist safe haven. The interim government consists of 14 members who are blacklisted by...
Expectations were high on both sides of the Atlantic when Joe Biden won the U.S. presidential election that transatlantic comity and cooperation would be restored, and that Donald Trump’s abrasive, destructive diplomacy soon would be merely a painful memory. Biden’s...
It is not important that mainstream political scientists keep underestimating contemporary Turkey and its tough president Recep Tayyip Erdogan: we are facing a great power reborn. The facts prove it. Like the mythical phoenix, this centuries-old imperiality-oriented power managed to...
Taliban celebrated ‘Independence Day’ as the last troop of the US military forces left Afghanistan. But after the Taliban takeover, the average Afghan population faces mounting challenges ahead. Afghanistan now is experiencing a collapse of administration and economy, rising food...
The world has been patiently waiting for an official government formation in Afghanistan. While acting president Amrullah Saleh and leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, Ahmad Massoud are battling Taliban forces in Panjshir valley, nothing explains the incomprehensible...
The spectacular collapse of the Afghan civilian government has caught everyone by surprise. The U.S.-led Western nations’ security and political assistance quickly unravelled as the Taliban made rapid gains across the country, standing on the doors of capital Kabul in...
As the U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan, the Afghan Taliban is inching towards key cities across the country, staking its claim to power. However, even as it does so, the group has unleashed a reign of terror in some of...