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Topic: Tajikistan

What India needs to learn from the Ayni airbase setback

Sidharth Raimedhi -
Indian power projection and influence will greatly depend on the choices of small powers — or partner countries — that exercise great agency despite power asymmetries.

India’s exit from Ayni airbase reveals New Delhi’s power projection limits. A key location lost

Swasti Rao -
Ayni’s origins lie in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when the United States invaded Afghanistan and the international order briefly seemed open to new alignments.

India pulled out of Tajikistan’s strategically important Ayni air base in 2022. Here’s why

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Tajikistan did not want to extend the lease because of apparent pressure from Russia & China over non-regional military personnel at the air base, it is learnt.

ADB approves $86.67 million grant for Tajikistan Green Corridor

ThePrint Team -
The ADB-funded project to upgrade 49-km road, incorporating climate adaptation.

Muslim-majority Tajikistan bans hijab as part of years-long campaign against public religiosity

Shivani Mago -
The new law bans the hijab and all other forms of foreign clothing, as well as children's festivities on Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

UNICEF welcomes Tajikistan’s support for return of displaced children from Syria

ThePrint Team -
The Government of Tajikistan has demonstrated its commitment to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, it said.

India is dusting off 30 yrs of Central Asia neglect. Delhi is ready with a message for China

Jyoti Malhotra -
The decision to invite the heads of Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan has been long in coming. Better late than never.

Gissar Military Aerodrome — India’s first overseas base that came to the rescue in Afghan crisis

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The GMA or the Ayni airbase is just west of the Tajik capital Dushanbe. It has been administered by India along with Tajikistan for nearly two decades.

China has built second foreign military base near key Afghan corridor — just north of PoK

Col. Vinayak Bhat (retd) -
The Chinese base is located in Tajikistan, 12 km from the strategic Wakhan Corridor, which lies just north of Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

India renews interest in running its first foreign military base in Tajikistan

Sujan Dutta -
A military base in Ayni could give New Delhi a significant strategic edge over Islamabad as it would effectively put India behind Pakistani lines.

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The oil pipelines that could decide the Iran war

Javier Blas -
Washington: Iran’s strategy in its war with the US and Israel is by now clear: Impose an intolerable economic cost on President Donald Trump,...

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Economy

Russian crude never left India’s import mix. It made up 1/3rd of oil imports from 2024 to 2026

Udit Bubna -
After dominating India’s crude imports since 2023, Russian supplies slowed amid US sanctions, but a 30-day ‘waiver’ amid West Asia tensions could now push flows back towards 2 mbpd.

Defence

India and Indonesia finalise BrahMos deal, contract to be signed early next fiscal

Snehesh Alex Philip -
One battery of the BrahMos missile is to be procured in the initial phase. The plan is to scale up the procurement in phases.

National Interest

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Shekhar Gupta -
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.

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