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Topic: Afghanistan

PM Modi chairs Cabinet meet on Afghan crisis, NSA Doval, Foreign Secretary Shringla present

India's Ambassador to Afghanistan Rudrendra Tandon, who was brought back from the embassy in Kabul along with other diplomats Tuesday, was also present in the meeting.

‘Burn my degrees, photos of me without hijab’: Afghan women in India tell families back home

Worried the Taliban may target their families for sending them abroad for education, Afghan women students are telling them to destroy all proof.

My father was right 20 years ago — governing Afghanistan as unified country was impossible

If the US effort in Afghanistan was doomed from the start, then the return of the Taliban was always inevitable. What isn’t inevitable is Afghanistan will become a terrorist haven again.

Taliban takeover of Afghanistan not a worry for India, former Ambassador Talmiz Ahmad says

Ahmad, former Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Oman & the UAE, dismissed the view of India being 'jeopardised' if Taliban gains control of Afghanistan as 'absolute rubbish'.

India has a very important role to play in dealing with Afghan crisis, says UK

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the way forward involved a global 'contact group' to ensure Afghanistan can never be used to launch terrorist attacks against UK or its allies.

India’s emergency visa open to all Afghans, has nothing to do with CAA, says govt

The ‘e-Emergency X-Misc Visa' for Afghans will be granted to individuals online after ‘required security checks’. It will initially be given for a period of six months.

Taliban declares ‘amnesty’ across Afghanistan, urges women to join its government

The group has sought to portray themselves as more moderate than their brutal side of the late 1990s. Taliban said women should be in the govt structure according to Shariah law.

Armed Taliban on patrol, embassy sealed, airport besieged — stranded Indian’s SOS from Kabul

Social worker who has been working on girl child education in Afghanistan for 2 years says 150-200 Indians stuck in nation. Waiting for MEA response to calls, emails, he adds.

Akhundzada, Haqqani, Mullah Yaqoob —  The Taliban’s key leaders who could lead Afghanistan

With the Taliban having captured Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani fleeing the country Sunday, speculation is rife on who will now lead Afghanistan. 

The people of Afghanistan are not fleeing from the Taliban. They are fleeing from Sharia law

Taliban's Sharia law is hardly the Islam that Muslims across the globe follow. It is inherently anti-women and freedom of speech and expression.

On Camera

Trump’s 28 points for Ukraine add up to a no-go at peace

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?

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.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

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.