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Arif Rafiq

Arif Rafiq

Arif Rafiq is a non-resident fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. and president of Vizier Consulting, L.L.C., a political risk advisory company focused on the Middle East and South Asia. He tweets at @arifcrafiq.

US-Taliban peace deal could be a victory for extremists

The US-Taliban peace talks held on Tuesday in Doha ended inconclusively, but are set to resume at an undecided later date in March. For the US, a political settlement with the Afghan Taliban is now a......

 Why Riyadh and Abu Dhabi should redouble efforts on connectivity in Asia

Earlier this month, the US State Department announced that Afghanistan’s imports of oil from Iran, the Iranian port of Chabahar, and a railway line linking it to Afghanistan would all be exempt......