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Chayanika Saxena
Chayanika Saxena
Chayanika Saxena is a President Graduate Fellow and final year PhD candidate at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. A political and human geographer by training, her doctoral research is on the socio-spatial negotiations of the Afghan refugees and migrants in the Indian cities of New Delhi and Kolkata.

Given the continuing international freeze on Afghanistan’s economic assets and meagre financial support from erstwhile donors, an increase in the production and sale of illegal drugs is likely. A Taliban boost for the opium trade, combined with its support to terrorist organisations like al-Qaeda, can exacerbate the challenge of narco-terrorism.

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The crises in Ukraine and Afghanistan have been transformed into geopolitically disconnected concerns even as there is much that connects them. Russian aggression in Ukraine serves as a critical reminder of the dangers associated both with the misuse of history and its wilful abandonment.

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