The South Asia Channel
List of The South Asia Channel articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Threats Abounding in Afghanistan
The National Unity Government is navigating a sea of power players, internal, and external threats. Ghani needs to be diligent if the government, and Afghanistan, is to survive.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Death From Above
Emily Schneider reviews two new books about the U.S. drone program, Sudden Justice and Kill Chain, that, read together, inform our understanding of U.S. drone policy in new ways.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Who’s Talking for the Taliban?
The Afghan government's discussions with the Taliban earlier this month sparked hope for an eventual peace process, but were those in attendance speaking on behalf of the Taliban? Or will rifts between the Taliban's political office in Doha and the factions in the field prove fatal to negotiations?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Terrorists on the Dais: How Terrorists Exploit the Media
By covering terrorist attacks in never-ending news cycles, journalists are playing into the terrorists’ strategy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Anatomy of a Fault Line
Early peace gestures by the Indian and Pakistani governments gave cause for optimism, but the two sides have once again drifted apart along familiar lines.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 India’s Wayward Words
India's recent war of words with Pakistan has been a strategic mistake.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Peace Window Is Closing For AfPak
Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have changed over the last nine months. But progress toward reconciliation has at best stalled, potentially forfeiting an historic opportunity.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Taliban’s Enemies, Foreign and Domestic
Any expansion of the Islamic State into Afghanistan is worrying enough to disquiet the Taliban, and it changes the nature of the insurgency. Afghanistan and Pakistan need to respond accordingly.
