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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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Topic: Taliban

BJP plays politics on Taliban, Afghanistan & Pakistan issues to garner votes: Mehbooba Mufti

PDP president Mufti Sunday claimed that BJP's 7-year rule has brought misery to the people of the country and has left Jammu and Kashmir destroyed.

Jaishankar discusses Afghanistan, India-Saudi ties in meeting with counterpart Al Saud

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud is on a three-day visit to India. It is the first ministerial visit from the gulf country to India since Covid outbreak.

Afghan women are telling Taliban ‘Don’t touch my clothes’. It’s a new culture war

Many ask if the Taliban have changed. What people forget to ask is how Internet has changed Afghan women.

Pakistan has a new divide-and-rule strategy for Taliban. It’s called ISIS-K

The Taliban leaders seem to be stuck between their hardliners and their moderates. Any decision will have to come at the cost of the other.

Have initiated dialogue with Taliban for inclusive Afghan govt, Imran Khan says

Pakistan PM Imran Khan said this inclusivity — of Tajiks, Hazaras & Uzbeks in the Afghan govt — will ensure peace and a stable Afghanistan.

Taliban opens schools for boys but girls still not allowed to return to classes

While UNICEF welcomed the reopening of schools, it stressed that girls should not be left out. Some media reports called the move a 'ban' on female education.

WhatsApp to Telegram, Pakistan-backed militant groups pushing Taliban agenda in Kashmir

The DFRLab reviewed multiple J&K insurgent-related WhatsApp group chats and Telegram channels as they responded to the culmination of a ‘20-year revolution.’

Afghanistan cannot be ‘controlled from the outside’, Imran Khan says at SCO Summit

Stating that Afghanistan is primarily dependent on foreign aid, Khan said Pakistan will continue to lend support to the country while urging Taliban to fulfil promises they have made.

Global community must incentivise Taliban on women’s rights, inclusive govt, says Imran Khan

Speaking to CNN in Islamabad Wednesday, the Pakistan PM Khan insisted the world should 'give them (the Taliban) time' to form a legitimate govt and make good on their promises.

Taliban ‘has armed drone unit to track & take down targets’, which helped it capture Kabul

Report in Newlines Magazine says drones were 'purchased' in China through a front company and parts were 'smuggled' into Afghanistan via Pakistan.

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.