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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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Topic: Taliban

Taliban recognise Afghans’ goodwill towards India, want to tap into it: Ex-envoy Yogendra Kumar

In a webinar on India, China, SCO and regional geopolitics, former ambassador also noted growing resentment among Central Asian nations towards China's BRI initiative.

Taliban-controlled Afghanistan aviation unit writes to India to resume commercial flights

The last commercial flight between India and Afghanistan was operated by Air India on the Kabul-Delhi route on 15 August, the day Kabul fell to the insurgent group.

Republicans introduce legislation in US Senate to impose sanctions on Taliban in Afghanistan

The legislation seeks report on the role of Pakistan in supporting Taliban. It also sanctions it and others in Afghanistan for terrorism, drug-trafficking, and human rights abuses.

Saudi Arabia recognised the first Taliban govt in 1996 but Gulf’s geopolitics has changed

For the Middle East, every military-led Western response for Afghanistan will in all likeliness come via Western bases in UAE or Qatar.

Afghanistan withdrawing from General Debate was its ‘own decision’, UN spokesperson says

Afghanistan's Permanent Representative at UN Ghulam Isaczai was listed to speak Monday on the final day of the UN General Debate but withdrew his participation over the weekend.

SAARC could stay stuck in limbo, now over Pakistan’s support for Taliban representation

Last SAARC Summit was held in 2014. The subsequent summit, scheduled for 2016 in Islamabad, was cancelled in light of tensions between India and Pakistan over Uri attack.

In chilling throwback to 1990s, Taliban hang body of ‘kidnapper’ in Herat’s main city square

Bodies of three other suspects reportedly taken to other parts of Herat for public hanging. Incident described by Taliban as ‘warning’ to criminals.

Pakistan on Modi’s mind: PM ‘calls out’ neighbour in talks with Biden, hints at it in UN speech

On his first US visit since Biden came to power, Modi made counter-terrorism measures against Pakistan a key issue, referred to it without taking its name at UN General Assembly.

Rajnath Singh talks ‘lessons’ from Taliban takeover, hits out at ‘irresponsible states’

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh says turmoil in Afghanistan and the region is a result of 'aggressive designs and active support to non-state players'.

China calls for lifting economic sanctions on Afghanistan & release of its forex reserves

Addressing the G20 Foreign Ministers virtually, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi also demanded to rush the humanitarian assistance to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan without any delay.

On Camera

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.