Afghanistan’s strategic location has made it the epicenter of rivalries among great powers. Weighing its geo-strategic significance, renowned Pakistani poet and philosopher Allama Iqbal (1877-1938) depicted the country as the heart of Asia, and posited that a disturbed Afghanistan means a disturbed Asia, and vice versa.  The celebrated British novelist-cum-diplomat Rudyard Kipling, in his novel Kim (1901), … Continue reading Plan for interim government a cloud over Afghanistan