Is China about to make military moves in Central Asia?
By Stephen Blank May 9th, 2016, The CACI Analyst China has steadfastly refused to get involved in providing hard, i.e. military, security to Central Asian governments, including Afghanistan. This might...
View ArticleChina eyes Iran's potential as a trade corridor
By Sudha Ramachandran May 26th, 2016, The CACI Analyst Iran’s location near key trade routes and strategic waterways could make it a major Eurasian trade and transit corridor in the coming decades....
View ArticleThe death of Mullah Mansour and the future of the Taliban
By John C.K. Daly June 7th, 2016, The CACI Analyst On May 21, a U.S. drone attack killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour and taxi driver Mohammad Azam near Nushki in Pakistan’s...
View ArticleAfghanistan risks water conflict with Iran
By Sudha Ramachandran July 30th, 2016, The CACI Analyst Afghanistan’s damming of the Harirud River could boost agriculture and industry in the country. However, the resulting reduction in water flow to...
View ArticleThe Tashkent summit and the expanded SCO
By Farkhod Tolipov July 27th, 2016, The CACI Analyst 50 years ago, Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent hosted a summit ending the India-Pakistan war of 1965, resulting in the Tashkent Declaration. It was, so...
View ArticleThe phantom menace of ISIS in Northern Afghanistan
By Franz J. Marty September 8th, 2016, The CACI Analyst Many accounts allege that the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has expanded to northern Afghanistan and...
View ArticleUnrest in Gilgit-Baltistan and the China-Pakistan economic corridor
By Sudha Ramachandran September 29th, 2016, The CACI Analyst Rising unrest in Gilgit-Baltistan and India’s growing assertiveness in laying claim to this region has set alarm bells ringing in Islamabad...
View ArticleBalochistan attacked again: what is Islamabad thinking?
By Rizwan Zeb November 30th, 2016, The CACI Analyst The terror attack in late October on a police training center in Balochistan’s capital Quetta, and the August suicide attack in the same city,...
View ArticleDeeper Afghanistan-India cooperation must not isolate Pakistan
By Sudha Ramachandran December 15th, 2016, The CACI Analyst India-Afghanistan relations have warmed considerably in recent months. During Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s visit to Delhi in...
View ArticleNew signs of Chinese military interest in Central Asia
By Stephen Blank January 16th, 2017, The CACI Analyst Recent evidence shows a gradual increase in Chinese military activity in Central Asia, particularly with Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan,...
View ArticleThe curious case of Chinese troops on Afghan soil
By Franz J. Marty February 3, 2017, the CACI Analyst Overwhelming evidence – photographs, an eyewitness account and several confirming statements of diplomats and observers, among them a Chinese...
View ArticlePakistan to repatriate Afghan refugees
By Sudha Ramachandran February 9, 2017, the CACI Analyst Pakistan’s government has set March 31 as the deadline for all Afghan refugees living on its soil to leave the country or face deportation....
View ArticleIndia’s and Pakistan’s Memberships Diminishes SCO’s Ability to Compete with NATO
By Naveed Ahmad July 18, 2017, the CACI Analyst The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit admitted India and Pakistan as full members on June 9; and now represents 40 percent of the human...
View ArticleHas the SCO Solved its Expansion Dilemmas?
By Richard Weitz August 3, 2017, the CACI Analyst The June Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Astana marked the SCO’s first membership expansion since its creation in 2001. By finally...
View ArticleWhy Isolating Pakistan Will Not Solve Kabul's Problems
By Rizwan Zeb August 7, 2017, the CACI Analyst Afghanistan has been a factor in the rivalry between India and Pakistan since 1947. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has embarked upon a campaign to isolate...
View ArticleWhat Drives Russo-Pakistan Relations and Where Are They Going?
By Stephen Blank August 29, 2017, the CACI Analyst Inexplicably, Russia’s rapprochement with Pakistan over the last several years has received little or no attention in the West. It raises several...
View ArticleChina's Peacemaking Between Pakistan and Afghanistan
By Sudha Ramachandran September 7, 2017, the CACI Analyst With its shuttle diplomacy between Pakistan and Afghanistan to ease tensions between the two neighbors, China has expanded its peacemaking...
View ArticleThe India-China Clash and the Expanded SCO
By Stephen Blank October 16, 2017, the CACI Analyst The recent Indo-Chinese crisis over the Doklam area has been peacefully resolved for now, yet its repercussions risk spilling over to both South and...
View ArticleIran's Chabahar Port Empowers India-Afghanistan Trade at Pakistan's Expense
By Sudha Ramachandran January 10, 2018, the CACI Analyst On November 11, a consignment of 15,000 tons of wheat arrived in Afghanistan from India via Iran’s Chabahar port. This is an important...
View ArticlePakistan in the SCO: Challenges and Prospects
By Rizwan Zeb February 8, 2018, the CACI Analyst The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) Council of Heads of Government (CHG) held its 16th meeting on November 30-December 1, 2017. Pakistan’s PM...
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