Why would a faith ordained by the Lord Himself be in crisis?

If any force can keep Afghanistan together against an emerging ISIS threat and govern the country, it is the Taliban

Politicians need to feel part of the ‘decision-making’ ashhrafiyya (elite) all the time, hence the noise

There are disputes that are brought to limelight only if the parties try and change regional and/or global status-quo

G-B without a military footprint, tourism, trade with China, AKRSP and other NGOs would be a different story

The biggest challenge to the intra-Afghan talks is from the internal divisions among the Afghan political factions

Afghanistan remains one of the most widely covered crises of modern times

The Chinese model is based upon the binary of opposites — Yin-Yang

All rich individuals are not essentially corrupt

China has so far defended non-interference but cannot remain the ‘hesitant power’ in the evolving international order