Articles By Alexander Murray

Afghanistan: US Drops “Mother of All Bombs” Potentially Changing...
By: Alexander Murray | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 16 Apr , 2017
Having almost never mentioned Afghanistan during his United States presidential campaign as well as over the first three months of his presidency, on 13 April US President Trump shocked the world...

Afghanistan: Sanctions on Hekmatyar Lifted; Eyes on Russia
By: Alexander Murray | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 12 Feb , 2017
This action by the UNSC is precisely what they had requested nearly two months ago. This sudden development, as I have previously warned, should be met with great skepticism not only for the...

Afghan Calls to Lift UN Sanctions: A Welcome to Pakistan and Warning to the...
By: Alexander Murray | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 01 Jan , 2017
Earlier this month, the Afghan government of President Ashraf Ghani made requests of the UN Security Council (UNSC) that Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and his political affiliate, Hezb-e-Islami-ye-Gulbuddin...

Greater Balochistan: A Quiet Frontier set to Explode
By: Alexander Murray | Date: 15 Nov , 2016
As infrastructure projects in Greater Balochistan come to be, governments across South and Central Asia should prepare for what will most likely turn into the region’s next hotbed of violence....