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National Directorate of Security

July 24, 2017
Fixing Afghanistan's Struggling Security Forces
By Ghulam Farooq Mujaddidi
To make the ANDSF an effective force, there needs to be some drastic changes.

June 23, 2017
Decoding Afghan Security Forces' Failures
By Ghulam Farooq Mujaddidi
Afghanistan's woefully unprepared intelligence and security agencies are as much of a problem as cross-border terrorism.

September 15, 2016
Afghanistan’s Anti-Taliban Vigilantes: Blessing or Curse?
By Franz J. Marty
When locals take their defense into their own hands, what does that mean for Afghanistan's central government?

May 06, 2016
19 Months Later, Afghan Government Lacks Core Ministerial Leadership
By Catherine Putz
Despite promising to offer up new nominees for Afghanistan's top security jobs, President Ashraf Ghani is simply shuffling the deck.

August 18, 2015
Enough Is Enough: Pakistan Needs to Change Its Approach to Afghanistan
By Aziz Amin Ahmadzai
Pakistan's years of harboring and encouraging terrorism toward Afghanistan must come to an end.

May 18, 2015
Afghanistan, Pakistan to Cooperate on Counter-Terrorism
By Ankit Panda
Afghanistan and Pakistan will cooperate formally on counter-terrorism. Is this a seachange in their bilateral ties?

January 01, 2014
Afghanistan-Pakistan: The Covert War
By Umar Farooq
With the impending drawdown of U.S. forces, a largely overlooked conflict has the potential to explode.
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