Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani (right) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi press the button to launch the Afghan-India Friendship Dam (photo from the Indian Prime Minister’s website)
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 4 inaugurated the Afghan-India Friendship Dam in Afghanistan’s western Herat province.
ASTANA (TCA) — Authorities in Kazakhstan say suspected Islamist militants on June 5 killed six people at a military facility and two gun stores in the northwestern city of Aktobe, prompting security forces to launch a “counterterrorism operation,” RFE/RL reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas.
BISHKEK (TCA) — As Kyrgyzstan marked the Day of Parliamentarism on June 4, Kyrgyz MP Dastan Bekeshev said that parliamentary democracy is still developing in Kyrgyzstan. “It is too early to say that the parliamentary governance has been established in Kyrgyzstan, so it is necessary to further strengthen it,” he said at the roundtable dedicated to the development of the parliamentary system in Kyrgyzstan.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The death of the Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province on May 21 has put the Taliban movement back on a powder keg, also affecting the fragile peace process being negotiated between the Taliban and the Afghan government. Here below are excerpts from an analysis by Dr. Syed Adnan Ali Shah Bukhari and Dr. Sadia Sulaiman, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation, that assess the death of Mullah Mansour and its impact on the Taliban leadership:
LONDON (TCA) — With the recent death of its last strongman, the oldest and most threatening terrorist organization of Central Asia, the Uzbek-dominated IMU, has disappeared – or may be not? From recent events it is easy to observe that Al-Qaeda is absorbing the global jihad conglomerate into its own ranks. This includes Daesh, apparently considered too exposed to be of further use, and of course the Taliban, making the danger toward Central Asia all the more acute.
