Ahmad Fawad Arsala

Trump’s Post-Ukraine Playbook: Why the Real Target Is Iran

When Donald Trump re-entered the White House, much of the world braced for unpredictability. Yet beneath the theatrics, bluster, and…

2 weeks ago

Ghani’s Hollow Vision: Self-Praise, No Accountability, and Zero Solutions

Ashraf Ghani has resurfaced, and as always, he arrives armed with paragraphs of poetic abstractions, circular reasoning, and self-exonerating reflections.…

3 weeks ago

Washington’s New Chessboard: How President Trump and Pakistan’s Generals Are Rewriting the Great Game

Washington’s New Chessboard: How President Trump and Pakistan’s Generals Are Rewriting the Great Game   As the Trump administration returns…

1 month ago

Ashraf Ghani Went to GHQ, The Taliban Made GHQ Come to the Table

When history looks back at Afghanistan’s recent decades of leadership, one image will forever symbolize Ashraf Ghani’s legacy: a sitting…

2 months ago

Pakistan’s Hypocrisy on the Taliban: A State Built on Contradictions

Pakistan’s hypocrisy on the Taliban is not new, it is the continuation of a dangerous pattern that dates back to…

3 months ago

General Munir’s Pakistan: Nuclear Blackmail and the Business of Chaos

Pakistan’s generals have long thrived on war, chaos, and duplicity, but under General Asim Munir, the mask has slipped completely.…

4 months ago

From Afghanistan’s Exit to Iran’s Targets: The Grand Strategy Behind Trump’s Moves

When Donald Trump pulled U.S. forces out of Afghanistan, the foreign-policy establishment called it reckless. He called it a reset.…

4 months ago

Why Afghanistan Works Better Without the Republic’s Crooks

By any measure of integrity or impact, Mirwais Azizi has done more for Afghanistan in the last six months than…

4 months ago

When the Taliban Protect and Iran Expels

In 2001, after the US bombing defeated the Taliban regime in the desert wastelands of Dasht-e-Leili in northern Afghanistan, more…

4 months ago

From Recognition to Realpolitik: Russia’s Afghan Strategy and U.S. Bargaining

Russia’s evolving posture toward the Taliban regime in Afghanistan reveals a strategic calculus that transcends mere regional accommodation or counter-terrorism…

5 months ago