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Pakistan has successfully managed to clear its tribal regions of terrorist sanctuaries and their networks. However, many terrorists escaped into Afghanistan and found new safe havens and terrorist groups with whom they could ally with and carry out threats and terrorist activities in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. As of the present year and those to come, Afghanistan seems to be heading towards political and social chaos. Towards this end, Pakistan took up the initiative of securing its border with Afghanistan wanting the latter to become part of this initiative aimed at monitoring and regulating the cross-border activities. With Afghanistan showing no interest in securing borders, Pakistan has the legitimate continue with its border management initiatives. However, what must be remembered by both the states is that in the changing nature of security and the emergence of new terrorist groups inside both the countries is likely to deteriorate relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan if both the states do not work collaboratively towards securing their security interests. One way of moving forwards is to work under the framework of Border Security Initiative (BSI) which provides a detailed mechanism describing ways which not only helps to improve relations among the intelligence agencies but also includes the concept of border community policing complementing the built up of trust among people and the security agencies. Their inclusion in this initiative will not only assist the security agencies in carrying out operations against terrorist groups but will also help the local community come down to understand the reasons as to their sufferings and their happenings. The initiative towards Border Security Management (BSM) should be seen in terms of maintaining peace between both the countries As has been stated in the words of Victor Davis Hanson,"Between Friends, unfenced borders enhance friendship; among the unfriendly when fortified, they help keep the peace.". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the implications of the Iranian Nuclear programme both for the regional and the global politics. It relates the origin and development of the programme. It examines the reasons why Iran initiated the nuclear program and how have the difficulties of both Iran and West affected the regional and global politics.