{"id":29739,"date":"2018-10-26T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29739"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:40:24","slug":"saving-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/saving-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/saving-afghanistan\/article23688997.ece\"><strong>Saving Afghanistan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Global and regional powers must desist from playing the \u2018Great Game\u2019 and build peace<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current situation in Afghanistan<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Violence escalated this year<\/li>\n<li>The new \u2018South Asia\u2019 policy hasn\u2019t yielded any major results, as violence continues on the ground.<\/li>\n<li>The statement from the Taliban rejecting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani\u2019s offer of talks \u201cwithout preconditions\u201d and calling for the targeting of American forces in Afghanistan as part of a \u201cspring offensive\u201d signals the security challenge.<\/li>\n<li>According to the U.S., Afghan forces control just a little over half the territory today, down from nearly three-fourths in 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Different countries have different agendas in Afghanistan<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Growing U.S.-Russia tensions are creating space for proxies for both on Afghan soil, and the attacks by al-Qaeda and IS-related terror groups have their roots in the larger war between Iran and the Arab world<\/li>\n<li>Tensions between India and Pakistan cast a shadow over Afghanistan, with India\u2019s development assistance under attack.<\/li>\n<li>Driven by the desire to secure itself from Islamist groups, China is trying to build a rival military base in Afghanistan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Defeating terrorism in Afghanistan needs every stakeholder to put aside differences, and acknowledge that the current situation is a danger to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saving Afghanistan Context Global and regional powers must desist from playing the \u2018Great Game\u2019 and build peace Current situation in Afghanistan Violence escalated this year The new \u2018South Asia\u2019 policy hasn\u2019t yielded any major results, as violence continues on the ground. The statement from the Taliban rejecting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani\u2019s offer of talks \u201cwithout&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/saving-afghanistan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saving Afghanistan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704866322},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}