The attack on Kabul airport by Islamic State of Khorasan, a group which sees the Taliban as its enemy, will help the latter. It strengthens the Taliban’s positioning as a lesser evil.
According to the US officials, the blast outside the airport's Abbey Gate injured 3 US troops. The local reporters suspect a suicide attacker behind the blasts in Afghanistan's capital.
One doubts that Pakistan will be able to manage Afghanistan’s polity and society any more than it can in Pakistan itself. China will then have to think about stepping in.
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.
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'.
The MEA is taking help of IAF & Air India to evacuate people. Since commercial flights aren't allowed at Kabul airport, India has been using Tajikistan as the base for evacuation process.
A group of Indian nationals were taken to an unknown location near the Kabul airport for verification of travel documents. They were reportedly released later without any harm.
The Indian Air Force transport aircraft landed at Dushanbe, Tajikistan, after evacuating the Indians, and is expected to arrive Saturday evening at the Hindon airbase near Delhi.
Afghan scholar Hanif Sufizada, who works at University of Nebraska, got caught in Kabul during the chaos of the US pullout, when thousands of Afghans fled to the airport.
Indian judiciary has a corrosive imbalance between the bar and the bench. Those who supervise the district judiciary do so without the lived experience that is essential for meaningful reform.
November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
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