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Rustam Shah Mohmand
Rustam Shah Mohmand is a specialist of Afghanistan and Central Asian Affairs. He has served as Pakistan’s ambassador to Afghanistan and also held position of Chief Commissioner Refugees for a decade.
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The Durand Line: A British legacy that fuels new tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan
The border between British India and Afghanistan was demarcated by a boundary commission headed by British representative, Sir Mortimer Durand, in 1893 at the zenith of power and prestige of the British empire.
India’s G20 moot in Srinagar was a marketing move that has backfired
As the current President of the G20 group, India has convened a meeting of the 19 countries and European Union in Srinagar, Kashmir, from May 22 to May 24.
Ending Afghanistan’s isolation: Will Pakistan take the first step?
Five months after surviving an attack on his life that was claimed by Daesh, Ubaid Nizamani, Pakistan’s envoy to Kabul, returned to the Afghan capital to assume his duties last week.
Taliban’s unending obsession with women’s education and the billions it’s costing them
If there is one, just one single issue, on which the whole world is sharply aligned against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, it is the ban imposed on girls seeking higher education.
The unrest sweeping across Pakistan’s former tribal areas is strategically worrying
A serious review of policy is required in Pakistan’s restive, former tribal region, where anger and acrimony against the government is rising dangerously, and threatening a socio-political collapse in the area.
