THE AFGHAN CRISIS AND SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION POLICIES OF STABILISATION: A NEW MANAGEMENT?
THE AFGHAN CRISIS AND SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION POLICIES OF STABILISATION: A NEW MANAGEMENT?

Summary/Abstract: Central Asia has become a geopolitical chessboard for the superpowers. There are few places as important to US national security as the tribal belt along Pakistan and Afghanistan border region. The region serves as a safe haven for a core group of nationally and internationally networked of terrorists and increasingly a hotbed of indigenous militancy that threatens the stability of not only to Afghanistan and Pakistan but the entire Central Asian Region. It is estimated that nearly one hundred Islamic extremist groups and jihadi organizations with cross border linkages are operating with impunity throughout South Asia. In our paper we are intending to propose possible ways of strengthening and developing SCO’s potential in solving security, political, economic problems in Afghanistan with ultimate goal of preserving regional security free from terrorism, extremism, and drug trafficking that conducts to political and economic prosperity of all countries in the region.

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