By Mrityunjoy Kumar Jha New Delhi, Aug 30: Pakistan’s military establishment had offered the previous Afghan governments several proposals for their soldiers. The Pakistani Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa paid many visits but “only…
By Mrityunjoy Kumar Jha New Delhi, Aug 28: As the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed the responsibility for the Kabul airport attacks which left more than 100 people including 13 US marines dead, and…
By Ateet Sharma New Delhi, Aug 28: Buoyed by the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Pakistan has made a fresh bid to revive the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project. During his visit to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan’s capital,…
By Aditi Bhaduri New Delhi, Aug 28: The day Kabul fell, an observer in Dushanbe told me that an era had just started. “The Tajiks will never ever accept to be ruled by the Taliban,”…
By Mrityunjoy Kumar Jha New Delhi, Aug 28: For the last 24 hours guns are silent in the famed Panjshir valley as negotiations between the Northern Alliance, the flagbearer of armed resistance, and the Taliban,…
By SPS Pannu New Delhi, Aug 28: NATO forces are winding up their evacuation missions from Afghanistan ahead of the August 31 deadline set by the US for troop withdrawal. While some EU countries announced…
By Mahua Venkatesh New Delhi, Aug 27: US President Joe Biden will have to do a lot of answering with the twin blasts at Kabul that killed 13 American Army personnel. Even before the blasts,…
By Mahua Venkatesh New Delhi, Aug 27: The Imran Khan government, which is already under pressure for being unable to exit the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list, has reasons to be seriously worried…
By Nirupama Soundararajan New Delhi, Aug 27: Globalisation integrated economies and with economic integration came economic warfare. But along with that, securing economic ties has become equally important. Amid a rapidly changing geopolitical order, the…
By Rahul Kumar New Delhi, Aug 27: The multiple deadly bombings at the Kabul airport, have highlighted two things–the vulnerabilities of the ruling Taliban and the frail reality of Afghanistan overrun by terrorists of all…
By SPS Pannu New Delhi, Aug 27: Turkey is ready to provide its technical aviation experts to help the Taliban in operating the Kabul airport for civilian flights once the US and allied troops evacuate…
By SPS Pannu New Delhi, Aug 26: Russia has expressed serious concern over the US weapons that have fallen into Taliban hands, especially around 150 man-portable missiles that can bring down aircraft and wreak havoc…
By Rahul Kumar New Delhi, Aug 26: Russia is reinforcing its bases in Central Asia to prevent a fresh influx of extremism in its backyard following the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban. The recent…
By Kajal Sharda and Deepankar Sinha New Delhi, Aug 26: A number of freight quadrilaterals/initiatives connecting major economic centres of India, viz. ‘Golden Quadrilateral’, a network of upgraded highways, ‘Diamond Quadrilateral’, a network of high-speed…
By Atul Aneja New Delhi, Aug 26: India has returned to the Afghan cockpit following an eventful conversation between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. Several points of convergence emerged…
By Atul Aneja New Delhi, Aug 25: Instead, the Russians will rely heavily on diplomacy to form a stable government in Kabul, which does not export drugs or terrorism in the region. The Russians are…
By Ahmed Ali Fayyaz New Delhi, Aug 25: The killing of Abbas Sheikh of Kulgam, the founder chief of ‘The Resistance Front (TRF), along with Central Kashmirs dreaded terrorist Saquib Manzoor Dar, in a surgical…
By SPS Pannu New Delhi, Aug 25: In a deft diplomatic move Chinas ambassador in Hanoi met Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh just ahead of the scheduled meeting with US Vice-President Kamala Harris on…
By Ateet Sharma New Delhi, Aug 25: Painful images of the terror attack on a gurudwara in Kabul on March 26 last year, which left 25 people from the minority Sikh-Hindu community in Afghanistan dead,…
By Mahua Venkatesh New Delhi, Aug 25: Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private firms are gearing up to boost investments in the war-torn Afghanistan. According to a report published by Global Times, “the boldness of…