ICCR Fellow, IDSA, Dr Hari Bansh Jha’s analytical report on SAARC and Afghanistan titled ‘Window of Opportunity’ was published in ‘My Republica’ of Nepal on March 12, 2012.
Conflict and peace cannot co-exist. When there is conflict, peace is far away. By the same corollary, conflict has no place where there is peace. Perhaps no region in the world manifests this truth more than the present-day Afghanistan. Even after three decades of war in Afghanistan, no force, internal or external, can claim victory—be it former Soviet forces or the present US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces.