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Topic: Afghanistan

India-born Asim Umar, leader of al Qaeda’s south Asian branch, killed in US-Afghan raid

According to Indian officials, Asim Umar was born Shaan-ul-Haq in UP's Sambhal, went to Pakistan in 1995 and joined the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.

Afghan Taliban releases 3 Indian hostages in exchange for securing release of its members

Seven Indian engineers working for a power plant in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan Province were kidnapped in May 2018.

‘War no solution’: Pakistan pushes Taliban to resume talks with US for Afghan peace deal

A high-level Taliban delegation met Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in a push to revive the Afghan peace process, which stalled after Trump abruptly ended it.

Battered by Taliban terrorists & no closer to peace, Kabul finds a friend in Imran Khan 

Pakistan PM Imran Khan called up Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani this week following two terrorist attacks by the Taliban.

Breakdown of US-Taliban peace talks much-needed relief for Afghanistan, says envoy

Tahir Qadiry, Chargé d’Affaires at Afghan embassy, says it is up to the Taliban to get integrated into Afghan community and not the other way round.

Afghan Taliban are stronger than ever – after the US spent $900 billion to finish them

The Taliban are growing more confident of returning to power, 18 years after US launched its war on terror in which more than 147,000 people died.

A deal with the Taliban still makes sense

The US army's withdrawal process needs to resume and as before, the challenge is to do it while preventing Afghanistan from falling back into civil war.

US President Trump declares Afghan peace talks with Taliban are ‘dead’

Trump called off the meet after Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack in Kabul, in which an American soldier was among those killed.

Trump has avoided a bad deal with Taliban that was unlikely to bring peace to Afghanistan

Instead of seeing Taliban for what they are, Khalilzad and his team approached them as ‘noble savages’ battling for their traditional religious values.

Trump was right to cancel talks with Taliban but all is not lost

Most insurgencies end in a negotiation. If the Taliban are unwilling to accept a peaceful outcome the US should walk away from the table.

On Camera

Cloudflare outage is a sharp warning to India. We’re exposed to foreign digital failures

Digital sovereignty cannot stop at government cloud systems. It must extend to the networking, CDN, AI, and security layers permeating the entire economy.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.