All quiet on the Eastern front? (Kazakhstan)

Although this article is from last year, it still presents the Kazakhstan perspective as to what is happening in Afghanistan and in the region.

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Since US troops pioneered military bases of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and Russians attained an access to a military base in Kyrgyz Kant, many politicians became more relaxed, thinking that this way the security problem in Central Asia had been resolved.

However the stability problem in this strategically important region is not off the agenda. The current situation in Central Asia is quite optimistic.

Since the coalition forces invaded Afghanistan, broke the main forces of Talibs and established a temporary, and then permanent government there, Central Asia sighed with relief. What the countries bordering with Afghanistan were afraid of the most, did not happen: refugees, despite expectations, remained in Pakistani temporary camps, the extremism was not exported.

But, two years after, politicians come to a conclusion that the calm in Central Asia is but a temporary phenomenon. There are too many problems interior as well as exterior ones.

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All quiet on the Eastern front?