Abdul Waheed Waheed

​Afghanistan once again stands at the threshold of significant challenges and opportunities. After decades of war, foreign invasions, social fragmentation, lawlessness, and repeated state collapse, the country is experiencing a ground…

​Since 1947, Afghanistan and Pakistan have never enjoyed bilateral relations untainted by political and territorial friction. From the very inception of the Pakistani state, profound disagreements, most notably concerning the legal status…

Pakistan’s insistence on concrete and verifiable security measures is understandable as a negotiating objective, but the difficulty arises when such measures are treated as a precondition for dialogue rather than an outcome of dialogue. If…

Afghanistan and Pakistan inherited a long history of dispute over the status and interpretation of the Durand Line, which has remained a central source of tension between the two countries since the creation of Pakistan. Over the decades,…

The agreement between Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia’s Delta International for the exploration and development of oil and gas resources in the Kushk–Tirpul area of Herat Province could have implications far beyond Afghanistan’s energy sector.…

Afghanistan and Pakistan have never had a relationship free of political and geographical disagreements. Even before 1979, their governments held fundamentally different positions on important issues, including the status of the Durand…

Afghanistan’s relationship with Pakistan is the outcome of a cumulative and structural interplay of unresolved historical questions: the contested Durand Line, ethnic and social ties that do not conform to state boundaries, proxy politics,…

Pakistan has spent decades trying, without success, to shape a precarious Afghanistan according to its interests rather than learning to live with its neighbour in peaceful coexistence. Their relationship has been shaped by historical…

In the changing regional environment, the mechanisms that once enabled Islamabad to shape developments in Afghanistan no longer produce the outcomes they were designed to achieve. This is not the result of a single event, but of a gradual…

The troubled history of relations between Kabul and Islamabad cannot be understood solely through the activities of the TTP, the BLA, or the recent violence in Badakhshan province. While these security challenges are serious, they represent…