Analysis – Afghanistan Security Institute (ASI)

08 Mar

Analysis, Geopolitics, ISK, Radicalism, Resources, Taliban

The Death of Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani: Implications for Extremism and Regional Security

March 8, 2025
By

By Irfan Yar Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani, a prominent Pakistani cleric and administrator of Darul Uloom Haqqania, was assassinated in a tar...

21 Feb

Analysis, Geopolitics, ISK, Radicalism, Resources, Taliban, Uncategorized

Why the Islamic State Khorasan and the Taliban are at War

April 18, 2025
By

By Sumit Mishra On 27th August 2021, merely twelve days after the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban, a fedayee (suicide bomber) belon...

21 Feb

Analysis, Geopolitics, ISK, Radicalism, Resources, Taliban, Uncategorized

Realpolitik in Afghanistan: Way forward for India

March 8, 2025
By
0 comments

Authors: Bhargava Reddy & Vinay N Bhushan In August, the internationally recognized Afghan government – the Islamic Republic of ...

23 Oct

Analysis, Geopolitics, Radicalism, Resources, Taliban, topics, Uncategorized

Reinforcing Justice: The UN Human Rights Council’s Role in Addressing Afghanistan’s Human Rights Violations

April 11, 2025
By
0 comments

By Cara Rau The recent deliberations of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) on the human rights situation in Afghanistan r...

21 Feb

Analysis, Geopolitics, Radicalism, Resources, Taliban, Uncategorized

History is reiterating itself: The Taliban must learn from its past

April 18, 2025
By
0 comments

By Sidiqullah Sahel It is believed that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The proverb best fits the curre...

31 Dec

Analysis, Geopolitics, ISK, Radicalism, Resources, Taliban, Uncategorized

How the Taliban Mobilized Popular Support to Survive the United States War in Afghanistan

April 11, 2025
Featured
By

A Research Paper by Irfan Yar Abstract After fighting for nearly two decades and investing an enormous amount of blood and treasu...

21 Nov

Analysis, Geopolitics, ISK, Radicalism, Resources, Taliban, Uncategorized

The Fallacy of Liberal Interventionism: Afghanistan

March 9, 2025
By

By: Aulia Shifa Hamida President Joe Biden’s defiant speech– in which he conceded that the U.S. presence in Afghanistan was never su...

12 Aug

Analysis, Resources, Uncategorized

“Melian Strategy” Why did the Taliban fight and negotiate at the same time?

March 8, 2025
By
0 comments

By Irfan Yar As the US completes its troops’ withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban has seized the security vacuum to launch massive...

11 Mar

Analysis, Geopolitics, ISK, Radicalism, Resources, Taliban, topics, Videos

The ‘Father of the Taliban’ Is Dead. What Does That Mean for the Afghan Peace Process?

March 8, 2025
By
0 comments

How will Maulana Sami-ul-Haq’s murder impact the Afghan peace process? By Irfan Yar November 08, 2018 (originally published in ...