Arshad Khan was born in Mardan, Pakistan, in 1999. According to his manager, Khan’s mother is Pakistani, while his father is an ethnic Pashtun of Afghan descent.
Fleeing the conflict of their homeland, people of Afghanistan have sought safety in India over the decades. ThePrint looks at what life is like for these refugees living in Delhi.
With 1 Nov deadline lapsed, Afghan refugees facing arrest and expulsion have been forced to return to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan which suffers from sanctions, economic decline.
Pakistan is home to over 4 million Afghan migrants & refugees, about 1.7 million of them undocumented, Islamabad says, although many have lived in Pakistan for their entire lives.
48 Afghan cadets in India claim their visas were either cancelled or requests for visa extensions rejected. Ministry of External Affairs sources say 'nobody will be forced to go back'.
With Taliban in power back home, visa rules that prohibit working, and scholarships drying up, Afghan students in a limbo. Indian friends are helping, but they can only do so much.
Since January, Syed Jamaluddin Afghan School has been approaching various schools in Delhi asking them if they could use 15 classrooms to hold in-person classes. So far, the search has yielded no results.
On 29 May 1951, Jawaharlal Nehru defended adding 'reasonable restrictions' to Article 19, arguing that free speech must be balanced with national security and unity.
On bilateral ties, Admiral Paparo said India-US ties have an exponential effect on deterrence, because it demonstrates a unity of purpose among us to maintain the peace.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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