Natalya Zamarayeva

The problem of Afghan refugees in Pakistan has lasted for several decades. For the first time, world media started talking loudly about three million Afghans who passed through the Hindu Kush to the territory of Pakistan in the early 1980s. In those years, Soviet troops were…

At the beginning of July 2015, Pakistan hosted a meeting of representatives of the Afghan Government and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan, as part of the commitments to support the Afghan peace and reconciliation process headed by Afghanistan...

In May and June, 2015, Islamabad made another breakthrough with the governments of Central Asia. Prime Minister MianMuhammad Nawaz Sharif made official state visits to Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan to discuss…

“The honeymoon between Afghanistan and Pakistan has ended,” according to a Pakistani journalist, who spoke those words at a briefing in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad shortly after a terrorist attack on the Afghan parliament building. The events of…

Addressing the geopolitics of the Afghan-Pakistan region in 2015, we should take into account several fundamentally new scenarios: Kabul’s turn in favor of Islamabad, the prevalence of geoeconomic plans over geopolitics and the search of…

In May 2015 Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISIDahJTkfw and the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDSDahJTkfw signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the fight against terrorism. This is the first agreement between the intelligence…

Speaking about the status and prospects of Pakistan-Afghan relations, we should take into account several factors: first, the “Afghan problem” has been removed from the US/NATO agenda following the completion of the thirteen-year…