While both countries have taken diplomatic steps to de-escalate, there are serious geopolitical implications

It is high time for Pakistan to change the discourse on Kashmir

Trump must push India towards achieving peace in the region by moving from conflict management to conflict resolution

As the government does not seem to have any substantive and long-term plan of action

13-year public absence of Mullah Omar, success of IS has provided new generation of militants with new rationalisation

Instead of ‘killing-our-way to victory’ we have to ‘understand-our-way-to-peace’

Pakistan should play the role of a bridge by mediating between Iran & Saudi Arabia with assistance from Turkey & China

Pakistan’s govt, security forces will do well to kill the group in its infancy rather than ignoring threat it poses

The answer is ‘No’. The NAP is silent on counter-radicalisation to stop more people from joining militant groups

Problems in Afghanistan are regional in nature and require collective efforts of regional and international community