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TopicTaliban leaders

Topic: Taliban leaders

Building on Muttaqi’s visit, Taliban commerce minister in India amid tensions with Pakistan

New Delhi: Alhaj Nooruddin Azizi, the Taliban’s Minister of Industry and Commerce, arrived in India Wednesday for a five-day visit, with a business delegation,...

Senior Afghanistan official who called Taliban’s education ban for girls ‘un-Islamic’ leaves for UAE

An arrest warrant was issued against deputy foreign minister Abbas Stanikzai, say local reports. However, Stanikzai maintains he is travelling to the UAE because of health issues

Nothing has changed about Taliban, from terror to Sharia. Islamic world should pressure them

From upholding women’s rights to ensuring safety & internal harmony, the Taliban have backtracked on every promise they made, and the outcome can’t be great.

India shouldn’t retain ties with Afghanistan’s previous rulers, says Taliban leader Shaheen

Suhail Shaheen, Taliban's spokesperson, says security will be provided if India plans to reopen its embassy and can finish incomplete projects.

Taliban includes more men, no women in Afghanistan govt — this is who they are

While the Taliban government now includes a few names from the ethnic minority communities, Tuesday's appointments failed to add any women in the cabinet.

Taliban, Taliban, Taliban. Indian news channels serve ‘exclusive’ interviews, source-less videos

CNN News 18, India Today, Republic Bharat, Times Now – all dangle videos seemingly sourced from social media before Indian viewers, and at least once getting fact-checked.

What happens in Kabul won’t stay in Kabul. US can get ready for challenge across Muslim world

Having failed to manage its exit from Afghanistan well, the US must now focus on the second order consequences of its disastrous endgame.

Don’t forget Taliban also want the good life of Doha’s luxury hotels and Quetta bungalows

In time, Taliban fighters, or maybe the generation that succeeds them, will send their children to regular schools instead of Pakistani or Afghan madrasas.

Taliban leaders like Mullah Baradar have no real interest in Kashmir

For the foreseeable future, the Taliban leadership will be too busy settling scores, grabbing ministries, and fighting off potential challengers to bother about India.

I am the spiritual leader of Taliban. My boys will rule Afghanistan again after 20 years

I, General Twitter, keep reading Western propaganda that Taliban don’t care about women rights, human rights or any rights. That is right, I have trained my warriors for better stuff.

On Camera

Telangana spoke up for Muslim vendor who was attacked. South is different from the North

A poor Muslim man from Kurnool, selling khoya buns during the Medaram Jatara in Telangana, was harassed by some YouTubers and surrounded by a mob over allegations of 'food jihad'.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

US military commander, envoy Sergio Gor visit Indian Army Western Command, Bengaluru next

At the Western Army Command, the American delegation was briefed on the capabilities of the formation, past operations and the path ahead.

The new Great Game—Trump’s playing for time, China for leverage & India for wiggle room

This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.