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Monday, November 24, 2025
TopicAfghanistan

Topic: Afghanistan

Afghanistan is facing severe crisis under Taliban. It gets worse with its ‘women situation’

Afghan women are being pressured to become socially invisible and can't hold any position in public life. It might just get worse.

Whiff of corruption as ‘Gang of Four’ generals from Zia’s Pakistan linked to Swiss bank accounts

Documents leaked to Organised Crime & Corruption Reporting Project, a journalist consortium, raise questions on whether the generals profited from Afghan jihad & Pakistan’s nuclear programme.

India dispatches 2,500 MT wheat aid to Afghanistan through Pakistan, on board 50 Afghan trucks

Convoy flagged off at Attari-Wagah border. Part of India’s total 50,000 MT wheat aid, it will be handed over to the UN’s World Food Programme in Jalalabad.

Pakistan’s right to allow Indian aid for Afghanistan. Now listen to industrialists, normalise trade

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

India likely to start wheat aid to Kabul via Pakistan Tuesday, Afghan trucks to take 1st batch

About 30-40 Afghan trucks will be crossing over from Pakistan to India Monday night and will leave for Afghanistan after the loading of 10 MT of wheat is complete  .

Empire of poppies: Why countries think stopping Taliban’s narco-state is not worth the cost

Even as ordinary Afghans are reported to be selling their organs — and their daughters — for food, the Taliban-led opium industry is blossoming.

US and others shouldn’t fall for Taliban’s ruses. Aid and assets will still go to terrorism

America’s softening its stance on Afghanistan only led to the Taliban hardening its position. Lifting sanctions will not help Afghans.

Imran Khan warns Afghanistan could descend into chaos, threaten Pakistan’s stability

The current humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan has reverberated in neighbouring Pakistan, PM Imran Khan said in an interview on CNN’s 'Fareed Zakaria GPS'.

Joe Biden’s decision to command & split Afghanistan’s forex is a $7 billion betrayal

Biden has begun releasing the $7 bn Afghan Central Bank funds held in US Fed. His plan proposes to split it. The problem is, the US doesn’t own that money: Afghanistan does.

Jemima to Imran to US scholars, all up against Biden’s move to use Afghan assets

Joe Biden administration has decided to unfreeze $7 billion of Afghanistan financial assets kept in US banks and use half of it for families of 9/11 victims.

On Camera

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.

US pilot says his team pulled out of Dubai Air Show after Tejas crash out of respect for IAF pilot

Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.