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.
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.”
