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Topic: Afghanistan

What Imran Khan’s Trump meet shows – being a nuclear-armed state with terrorists pays

Donald Trump undid decades of bipartisan diplomacy forged by US presidents Bill Clinton & Barack Obama and Indian PMs Atal Bihari Vajpayee & Narendra Modi.

Attack on Afghan V-P candidate & India friend Saleh, as US-Pak agree to withdraw troops

Afghan vice-presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh has been vocal in criticism of nexus between Pakistan’s establishment and terrorism in Afghanistan.

Taliban says Afghan peace deal with US likely soon

Taliban and the US are due to resume negotiations soon in Doha after adjourning their seventh round of meetings earlier this month.

India should lobby for Afghan govt on Taliban peace talks, says envoy

Tahir Qadiry, Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy of Afghanistan, says Kabul wants more from New Delhi as it’s an emerging power & could use its potential to lobby for Afghanistan.

Young academic pits himself against warlords in Afghanistan poll

Faramarz Tamanna is counting on first-time voters and an educated urbanised population he says is tired of conflict, economic insecurity and ethnic division for support.

Should the Afghan peace process really matter to India?

Given India’s heavy diplomatic investment in the country, New Delhi insists on Afghanistan government-led negotiations.

India to continue helping Afghanistan limit Taliban, Pakistan & China’s influence: Pentagon

The Pentagon said a significant deterioration of security conditions in Afghanistan may adversely affect the ability of India to provide aid to the war-torn country.

India must change its risk-averse stand on Afghanistan, given new Russia-Pak-China bonhomie

India has maintained a policy of not engaging with the Taliban and pressing for an Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace initiative.

On Noida’s cricket greens, a familiar feel when Afghanistan take the field

From home grounds in Noida, Dehradun, sponsorship from Indian firms to New Delhi-built stadiums in Kandahar, Afghan cricket has a very distinct Indian feel.

Afghan President Ghani is praising Pakistan & releasing Taliban leaders. Something’s fishy

Ghani’s government must not repeat the disastrous mistake of offering yet another ‘olive branch’ to Pakistan.

On Camera

India has to move on now. Engage with ‘Nooton Bangladesh’

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has, in a sense, tasted her own medicine. The International Crimes Tribunal, the special court she instituted for...

The day Dharmendra ‘died’

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.