... composition. This was due to significant deepening of the SCO’s geopolitical dimension following the accession of India and Pakistan last year, whose leaders first took part in the organization’s activities at the Qingdao summit. As a result of the ... ... and extremist activities, the summit participants once again confirmed their unfailing support for regulating the situation in Afghanistan exclusively by peaceful means and by the Afghan people themselves, and called for a strengthening of the mechanisms ...
... but on a new footing. Next in geographical terms would be India – because our relations with India are clear and there are unused opportunities that have been missed in the last 30 years.
How would you characterise the Russia-Pakistan relationship?
Pakistan is an important player, we want to be involved, have a relationship with them. But they are not in the same category as China or India.
Is Russia supporting Taliban in Afghanistan?
We are playing a very complicated game – sometimes we support somebody, sometimes we help somebody else. Taliban is also different. When we saw the US going in with ground troops we were aghast. That was a disaster. Now it’s different ...
... and Kurdistan are by ingenious populations and these lands have historically remained countries.
Afghanistan in changing politics
Three decades long Pakistan’s intervention and engagement with Afghanistan has by and large proved fruitless for both Afghanistan and Pakistan. After change of guards in USA, Trump has expressed positivity for Russia in the context NATO as well as in the post-Crimea crises. It seems USA and Russia again would join their hands in Afghanistan and on some other similar matters mostly based ...
... forces due to the influx of experienced military personnel from the Afghan conflict zone. According to various estimates (
1
;
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), during that time, a few hundred or even thousands of ethnic groups living in the territory of the Central Asian states, Afghanistan, Pakistan (Tajiks, Uzbeks, Pashtuns) arrived (made hijrah) through Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon along with hundreds of recruits from around the world to protect the IS stronghold.
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When the active phase of large-scale operations conducted ...
... Turkmenistan has been making a number of more or less successful attempts to diversify its supply routes, for example, through the Trans-Caspian pipeline.
An undeniable highlight of the past year has been the December 2015
launch
of the Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan India pipeline project, also known as TAPI. A highly ambitious initiative with its roots going back to the former President of Turkmenistan, the gas pipeline project has been positioned as a pipeline for peace, a means of connecting Afghanistan ...
... weakening the organization.
The appointment of Akhtar Mansour as leader of the Taliban can be viewed in two ways: as a victory for Pakistan or as the strengthening of the radical tendencies within the Taliban. Akhtar Mansour is clearly supported by Pakistan.
The second factor concerns the situation in Afghanistan, including the spread of the Islamic State (ISIS) and its influence on the Taliban. ISIS already has a presence in 25 provinces in Afghanistan, and this number will only grow. And Akhtar Mansour has declared that the jihad will be fought until ...
... people’s lives and block progress.”
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President Xi Jinping of China arrived in
Pakistan about ten days before Ashraf Ghani’s
visit to India
The two sides considered the trade and transit agreement signed by Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2011. Modi stated that India should join this agreement in order to make it possible for Afghan goods to be transported to India and Indian goods to Afghanistan via Pakistan. Implementing these plans, he stated, would make it possible to revolutionise ...
... irreversible impacts out of these developments become inevitable. A cautious moment Afghanistan and the engaged world is need to step forwardly cautiously whenever the process of Afghan security establishment development and capacity building is initiated. The Afghanistan-Pakistan understanding may serve two immediate interests of Afghanistan -- the limited gains from import and export, and submissiveness of Pakistan supported Taliban. It is bound to leave, on the other hand, long term adverse impacts on Afghanistan’s ...
... the neighboring region. India will never give up on its quest to be a stakeholder in Afghan affairs but I believe the Russians realize this well that without Pakistan, there is no definitive peace in the region. The wide range of issues connected to Afghanistan which Pakistan and Russia have started to discuss, include the drug trade (narcotics), terrorism and ISAF-NATO supply-routes (logistics). Pakistan too, on its part, has come to understand that although it is wise to keep India well at bay from Afghan affairs ...
... Urdu-speaking privileged community has perverted society in name of Islamization so that Punjab may carry on its colonization of Sindh, Baluchistan, and KP in Pakistan. It is also important to note here that in so many manners, if the chemistry of statecraft Pakistan is not changed, the issue of Afghanistan will never get resolved. Mostly because, the exclusive and non-representative security establishment of Pakistan devises it’s foreign policy, which ultimately is dominated by ethnic Punjabis and their junior partner Urdu speaking bureaucracy....
