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Trump will face major obstacles changing Pakistan stance on terror groups - The Hill
“The elephant in the room is the India-Pakistan relationship,” said Moeed Yusuf, associate vice president of the Asia Center at the U.S. Institute of Peace. “India-Pakistan relations are the only thing that Pakistan really cares about in terms of changing its behavior.”
- بدھ 23 اگست کا پروگرام - Urdu Voice of America View 360
آج کے شو میں امریکہ کی افغانستان پالیسی اور پاک بھارت سفارتی تعلقات کی بدلتی نوعیت؟ اوریہ پالیسی افغان عوام کے لیئے کیسے مستقبل کی تصویر پیش کرتی ہے۔ قدیم لاہور کی گلیوں کی خاص رونقیں ، اور روبوٹس جو بنارہے ہیں پیزا ۔
Gandhara Podcast: Trump’s New Afghanistan, South Asia Strategy - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
To discuss this issue, we turned to Omar Samad, a former Afghan ambassador to France and Canada. Shahmahmood Miakhel, the country director of the United States Institute of Peace for Afghanistan, joined our discussion from Kabul. I contributed from Prague while my colleague Muhammad Tahir, RFE/RL’s media relations manager, moderated our discussion from Washington.
Experts Say Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy Will Require Nation-Building - Breitbart
Andrew Wilder, vice president of Asia programs at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), pointed to the upcoming Afghan presidential elections in 2019. The last election in 2014 required heavy U.S. involvement. Scott Worden, director of Afghanistan and Central Asia Programs at USIP, said that, on one hand, Trump wants to protect the U.S. from terrorism emanating from Afghanistan, but on the other, 30 years of non-democratic institutions in Afghanistan have led to more violence. Belquis Ahmadi, a senior program officer as USIP, said it is now “up to the Afghans to address the needs of its people.”
US Afghan Policy - BBC News
U.S. Institute of Peace Vice President Andrew Wilder appeared on BBC News on August 22, 2017 to discuss the Trump administration’s revised Afghanistan strategy. He talked about the strategy's regional approach, including its focus on India and whether it will draw sharp criticism from Pakistan.
Trump's Afghanistan war strategy: Use military to force peace talks with Taliban - USA Today
Afghanistan’s government remains weak, and the Taliban and the Haqqani, another insurgent network, have sanctuary in neighboring Pakistan, making a U.S.-led military victory largely out of reach, said Scott Worden, an analyst at the U.S. Institute for Peace.
Trump Embraces Afghanistan Ideas That Failed Obama, Bush - Bloomberg
“There is pressure on Pakistan to change,” said Scott Worden, the director of Afghanistan and Central Asia programs at the U.S. Institute for Peace. “That’s been tried in the past. A lot will depend on what carrots and sticks are offered to see whether it marks a change."
Pakistan terrorism crackdown 'necessary' to Trump's Afghanistan strategy - Politico
“Pakistan’s spoiling power in Afghanistan is really unlimited,” said Moeed Yusuf, a South Asia expert with the U.S. Institute of Peace. “They could make a mess of things much more so than they have now.”
7 takeaways from Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy - PBS Newshour
Trump said we’re not in the business of nation building, but he shouldn’t discount it, either, said Andrew Wilder of the United States Institute of Peace. “Having a democracy there is an important, fundamental to exit strategy from Afghanistan,” Wilder told PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff. “Just killing bad guys — we’ve done a lot of that over 16 years,” Wilder said, but more important is ensuring the country’s 2019 presidential election is legitimate. Otherwise, we’ll see “a descent into anarchy with no legitimate government,” he said.
What should be in Trump’s plan for America’s longest war? - PBS Newshour
To walk us through what the U.S. faces: Andrew Wilder is vice president of Asia Programs at the United States Institute of Peace.