The group along with three copies of the Guru Granth Sahib was airlifted from Kabul to Dushanbe by a military transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force Monday.
The Taliban care about making money to keep fighting, largely from drug-smuggling, and have shown little interest in running an economy for the material well-being of Afghan society.
US currently has 5,800 troops at Kabul airport who are engaged in evacuating its citizens and Afghans who helped the United States during its stay in Afghanistan for past 20 years.
Chinese Foreign Ministry hit out at the US saying it is ‘main perpetrator’ for the Afghan crisis and Washington cannot leave without doing anything for Afghanistan's reconstruction.
Taliban spokesperson Dr Suhail Shaheen stated that the month-end deadline was a 'red line', as any extension would imply an extended occupation of the country.
The former IAF air chief marshal said that the Taliban policy of China and Pakistan will backfire as a result of their 'dishonest purposes' for getting involved in Afghanistan.
Nearly 200 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus are still stranded in Afghanistan, an organisation that is coordinating their evacuation efforts with MEA and IAF said.
PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti Sunday had asked the Centre to take a lesson from Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and urged the govt to hold dialogue in J&K and return its special status.
A video on GlobaLink, run by Xinhua news agency, says the Afghanistan crisis shows that when facing disasters, one 'should not count on a superpower which brings super disaster'.
Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?
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.
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.
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