Afghanistan's Tolo News quotes sources as saying that areas that have fallen to Taliban in past 24 hours include 2 districts in Parwan & 1 in Kandahar.
As many as 50 Indian diplomatic staff came back late Saturday night on evacuation flights. Taliban have overrun vast swathes of Afghanistan as US pulls out.
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen spoke to Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post as Islamist outfit makes vast territorial gains in Afghanistan ahead of US pullout.
US lost the war in Afghanistan many years ago. Yet false assumptions and lack of awareness fueled a ruinous undertaking that cost innumerable lives & left Afghanistan worse off than before.
If Imran Khan really wants Pakistan to prosper, he should focus on structural reforms the IMF is demanding and put the economy on a more sustainable path instead of coddling extremists.
This is the third retreat to Tajikistan reported in the past three days. In all, nearly 1,600 soldiers are believed to have crossed the border. Violence comes as US, NATO withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
On 24 August 1949, Jaipal Singh Munda, the driving force behind the Jharkhand movement, argued for political representation and self-governance for the tribal community in the Constituent Assembly.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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