Ghani, in his first comments after leaving Afghanistan, said Taliban is facing a new historical test of either protecting the name & honour of the country or prioritise other things.
Senior Air India officials said the Afghanistan airspace has been declared ‘uncontrolled’ by the Kabul airport Monday and transit flights have been asked to avoid the airspace.
There has been a reprisal of killings, women being ordered from their workplaces into their homes and girls forbidden from attending school now that the Taliban are back in power.
In 2001, late Minister Jaswant Singh had said that 'the problem cannot be the solution', referring to US’ reliance on Pakistan for a solution to terrorism.
Videos from Kabul airport show chaotic scenes of people thronging tarmac & departure areas, hoping to get on a flight leaving Afghanistan. US says 6,000 troops will aid its evacuation efforts.
In exclusive interview to ThePrint in Kabul, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is part of a committee to oversee transition of power to Taliban, says elections are the way forward, calls US entry & exit in Afghanistan a blunder.
Hours after the Taliban occupied the presidential palace in Kabul, former US President Donald Trump said in a statement that what Joe Biden has done in Afghanistan is 'legendary'.
The Taliban entered the Afghan capital Kabul from all sides on Sunday. Taliban commanders say they have taken control of Afghan presidential palace, ANI, quoting Reuters, added.
Karzai, second cousin to former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, told ANI after reaching Delhi in a Air India flight that it's not clear who will be elected the next President.
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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