Abdul Basit

The killing may mark the end of al-Qae­da and the be­gin­ning of a very dif­fi­cult pe­ri­od for its hosts in Afghanistan.

The bil­lions spent by the US and NATO on the Afghan mil­i­tary could not fix ma­jor in­ter­nal flaws.

Ankara has a lot to gain from re­main­ing a key play­er in Afghanistan af­ter the US with­draw­al.

Re­cent de­vel­op­ments in the re­gion forced In­dia to re­think its ap­proach to the armed group.

The bor­der bar­ri­er will de­crease the num­ber of cross-bor­der at­tacks, but more needs to be done to se­cure the re­gion.

Biden’s elec­tion vic­to­ry could be an op­por­tu­ni­ty for Is­lam­abad to strength­en its eco­nom­ic and strate­gic ties to the US.

Pak­istan’s strat­e­gy to keep good re­la­tions with every­one is no longer work­ing in an in­creas­ing­ly po­larised Mus­lim world.

This new re­align­ment in Asia pro­vides new op­por­tu­ni­ties not only for Chi­na and Iran, but also for Pak­istan.

De­spite the re­cent at­tacks, the Tal­iban and the Afghan gov­ern­ment should con­tin­ue their co­op­er­a­tion ef­forts.