The paper examines patterns of bilateral trade between Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and CARs. It also investigates … whether providing India transit route to Afghanistan has opportunity costs for Pakistan’s trade potential with Afghanistan and … CARs. In 2009, Pakistan’s exports to Afghanistan amount to US$ 1.3 billion which make up for 7.8 % of Pakistan’s total …

The Afghanistan – Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) was signed in 1965 with the objective of granting and … economy-wide research in order not only to assess the impact for Afghanistan and Pakistan, but also for neighboring countries. …

What factors are likely to govern the course of Pakistan's future policy vis-à-vis Afghanistan? This question has … increasing relevance for regional security, especially in the light of the imminent endgame in Afghanistan and of the ongoing … Afghanistan and the US affect Pakistan's perceived power status in the Indian subcontinent. The extent to which Pakistani …

This report offers a critical examination of Iran's influence in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Two points are made: that …. Secondly, that Iran's engagements in Afghanistan are clearly guided by the presence of the US. Iran's predominant interest is … in stabilizing Afghanistan, but as long as Afghanistan is neither safe nor stable, Iran will play a double game and …

Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any … significant impact on terrorist violence in Afghanistan but that drone strikes do have a significant impact on Taliban …