This theater covers Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan spheres of influence.
This theater focuses on the sovereign stability and security architectures of the CARs. Assessments prioritize the mapping of trans-border kinetic spillover from Afghanistan, the monitoring of ISKP operational expansion, and the impact of Russian and Chinese strategic competition on regional security protocols.
CommandEleven’s Syed Khalid Muhammad explains why Pakistan’s Central Asian connectivity ambitions are stalled – TTP, ISKP, BLA, and the security conditions deterring regional investment.
Analyzing the operational reach of ISKP into Central Asian Republics (CARs) and the strategic threat to Russian regional interests.
Syed Khalid Muhammad, Executive Director – CommandEleven, joined Syed Shabahat Ali’s FaultLines program on PTV World to discuss the security situation in Afghanistan & the challenges to the region from the Taliban, and ISKP over the next few months. He also be discussed the emerging security conflict facing the Taliban in Afghanistan.
In this episode of The Insiders, Syed Khalid Muhammad talks about the emerging security situation in Afghanistan with a weakening Taliban, a rising Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP), the changing alliances of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and other groups, and the security implications for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, China, and the Central Asian Republics (CARs).
Syed Khalid Muhammad, CommandEleven Executive Director, joined Syed Shabahat Ali on PTV World’s Fault Lines to discuss the escalation of violence in Afghanistan by Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) in recent months and indications of what the future of the conflict holds for both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The grievances of Pashtuns, the progress of KPK, support base of PTM, role of PTI and PPP, and proposed next steps are discussed in this article and offer additional insight to this issue.
The Central Asian Republics have been historically connected to the world through the ancient Silk Road, situated at the crossroads of East Asia, West Asia, South Asia and Europe, their location is excellent for trade.
The past couple of years have been marked by dramatic geopolitical changes triggered by the onset of the New Cold War, and while events such as the spree of urban terrorism popularly known as “Euromaidan” and Russia’s anti-terrorist intervention in Syria are well known, there are other major shifts which have yet to generate considerable public attention but have been no less consequential.
Moscow will host six-party talks about Afghanistan on 15 February, with Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Iran, India, and naturally Russia expected to be represented. Moreover, Zamir Kabulov – thought of as being the leader of the “Islamophile” South Asian faction in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – extended an invitation to the US as well, though stipulating that it should first be “ready to work constructively with regional powers” and “determine what they are planning to do in Afghanistan.”
A country is only as good as its statesmen, decision makers, thinkers, strategists, Generals, Spy masters and political leaders who are collectively known as the ‘intelligentsia’. The decisions made by the ‘intelligentsia’ have far reaching consequences for a country’s fate, especially if the state in question is an infant country with scarce resources, limited national power and is dearly wanted by its powerful neighbors due to its valuable geography.
