‘Incentivising’ Taliban: A Faustian Deal by Col Nilesh Kunwar (Retd)
The problem with terrorist groups is that they firmly believe that the gun is the only way to resolve any
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Afghanistan
Hot Wash- Afghanistan: Connecting Past to Future By Team STRIVE
Preamble STRIVE organized a webinar on the subject on 16 Sep 21. It was done in two parts. In
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It’s Time Pakistan Either ‘Reforms’ or Finds Another ‘Whipping Boy’ by Col Nilesh Kunwar(Retd)
Ever since its creation, Pakistan has found a convenient ‘whipping boy’ in India for two reasons. One, by portraying its
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FROM AIR SPACE TO MILITARY BASE by Col Akhilendra Kumar Singh (Retd)
Today Pakistan faces an existential threat, caught between the deep sea and the devil with termites consuming it from within,
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Why the World Can’t Win the War on Terror by Nilesh Kunwar (Retd)
The Agony As the twentieth anniversary of the horrific 9/11 terror attacks approaches, memories of this wanton act of terrorism
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Afghanistan: The Plot Thickens by Col Nilesh Kunwar (Retd)
When something completely unexpected happens, we ascribe it to providence. But when there are a series of such occurrences revolving
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Taliban and the Kabul Twin Attacks by Nilesh Kunwar
A tragedy in making It was former US President John F Kennedy who came up with the sagacious suggestion
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Ashraf Ghani: The Pashtun Who Cut and Ran As Afghanistan Fell to Taliban by Lt Gen Bhopinder Singh (Retd)
Amongst the fierce Pashtuns, the Ahmadzais of the Ghilji (derived from Gharzay, or mountains, hence ‘hill people’) confederacy, have an illustrious
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