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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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Topic: al-Qaeda

Taliban controls & contests 65% of Afghanistan, as US gets desperate to withdraw troops

Srijan Shukla -
Analysts say that Taliban’s refusal to share power with the Kabul government essentially means that they will continue their ‘jihad’ against it.

Ajai Sahni on why Al Qaeda does not succeed in J&K, Deepak Nayyar on why Budget is disappointing

Achyut Mishra -
The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

India’s ‘knockout blues’ rule newspaper headlines and ‘Congress is over’ declares Arnab

Simrin Sirur -
Your daily news capsule.

In its Kashmir video, Al-Qaeda asks terrorists to inflict unrelenting blows on Indian Army

PTI -
The video was posted on As-Sahab channel, an in-house production of Al-Qaeda, used to relay the organisation's views to the world.

Al Qaeda recruited 40,000 new fighters since 9/11 attacks. Clearly, the US Army failed

Christian Taylor -
Despite a US-led global “war on terror” that cost US$5.9 trillion, killed an estimated 480,000 to 507,000 people and assassinated bin Laden, al-Qaeda has grown and spread.

Intel warns of another Kashmir car bomb attack, this time where Zakir Musa was killed

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The intel input identified two terrorists of the Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) as being involved in preparation of IEDs.

Normalcy returns to Kashmir after 2 days of shutdown due to Zakir Musa’s death

PTI -
Zakir Musa was the head of an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Kashmir and was killed in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama.

India was of little value to ISIS. That’s all set to change now

Adil Rasheed -
Global jihad organisations like ISIS and al-Qaeda now believe they have a more ready audience in India for their brand of radicalisation.

US has moved new resolution, but Masood Azhar unlikely to be blacklisted anytime soon

Nayanima Basu -
China's vote is crucial for the listing to go through but without a timeline, even that may take years. 

US again slams China on Masood Azhar, raises Uighur Muslims issue

Nayanima Basu -
Targeting China, US has moved a draft resolution at UNSC to blacklist Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar.
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India’s TRP ecosystem needs a reset. Time to end BARC monopoly

Varun Ramdas -
A ratings monopoly in India has led to lack of technological variation, resulting in sluggish systems detached from market dynamics.

Chandrababu Naidu is dreaming new dreams at 75. What other CMs are missing

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What India can learn from Israel about atmanirbharta in defence

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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