Philip Jakeman

Philip Jakeman is currently Afghanistan and Bangladesh researcher for the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies in New Delhi.

Afghanistan: necessity and impossibility

According to sources inside Afghanistan, Taliban leader ‘Mullah' Mohammed Omar sent a secret envoy to President Hamid Karzai earlier this year to discuss his possible entrance into the Afghan

By Philip Jakeman

/ 12 Oct 2007

India's soft allure

In Afghanistan, it is not uncommon for meetings of all kinds to follow a somewhat flexible interpretation of time. However, in the case of a recent high-level meeting with the

By Philip Jakeman

/ 26 Jun 2007