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Opinion pieces published by Kabul Institute researchers and contributors. These pieces represent the views of their authors and reflect Kabul Insttitute's commitment to rigorous, Afghan-led analysis of the issues that matter most.
Only nine percent of every dollar entering Afghanistan's humanitarian response can be traced past its first recipient. UN agencies cannot keep treating that as an acceptable cost of doing business…
Read Opinion →Pakistan turned access into leverage in Afghanistan for four decades. Washington may be walking into the same trap with Iran…
Read Opinion →Five years of asking how Afghanistan fell has produced very little serious thinking about what comes next. Six unglamorous things that need to be built now, not summoned later…
Read Opinion →Kabul's groundwater will be gone by 2030, and the crisis has yet to become a regional headline…
Read Opinion →For forty years, Pakistan has faced a strategic problem that cannot be solved through military force alone: Pashtun identity…
Read Opinion →The 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy names ISIS-K and al-Qaeda as top-tier threats, then leaves out the country and the neighbor that shelter them…
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The Kabul Institute Opinions series provides a platform for substantive Afghan-led analysis on governance, security, reconstruction, and identity. Contributors include KI researchers, fellows, and invited experts whose work aligns with KI's mission of independent, evidence-based engagement on Afghanistan's future. Opinion pieces are distinct from institutional statements and represent the views of their named authors.