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TopicPanjshir

Topic: Panjshir

Pakistan and China are preparing for a Taliban govt they don’t trust. So should India

Shyam Saran -
Pakistan’s interest in an influential role for the Haqqani group in a Taliban government is on account of its anti-Indian agenda. We must be prepared.

What ISI chief Faiz Hameed’s visit to Kabul has to do with new Taliban govt

Jyoti Malhotra -
In Afghanistan, war and peace have been inter-changeable, with players cutting deals with the enemy without fully informing even their friends.

News channels air video game clip to claim ‘Pakistan air force attacked Panjshir’

Tenzin Zompa -
Several news channels ran footage of what they claimed to be visuals of Pakistan air force's support for the Taliban in Panjshir in Afghanistan.

Instead of Taliban talks, India must stand up for Afghan resistance despite Panjshir fall

Lt General Prakash Menon -
The real battle isn’t in Kabul or Panjshir, it is in the minds of the Afghan people. And India can have an edge there.

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Opinion

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

R Jagannathan -
Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Indian govt is scrambling to manage LPG shortage while denying it exists

Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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