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Topic: Taliban

Pavan Varma on Hindi books poor sales, Soumya Ghosh says growth needs more than rate cuts

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Breakdown of US-Taliban peace talks much-needed relief for Afghanistan, says envoy

Tahir Qadiry, Chargé d’Affaires at Afghan embassy, says it is up to the Taliban to get integrated into Afghan community and not the other way round.

Afghan Taliban are stronger than ever – after the US spent $900 billion to finish them

The Taliban are growing more confident of returning to power, 18 years after US launched its war on terror in which more than 147,000 people died.

A deal with the Taliban still makes sense

The US army's withdrawal process needs to resume and as before, the challenge is to do it while preventing Afghanistan from falling back into civil war.

Taliban threats loom but Afghanistan to go ahead with election on 28 September

The present Ghani government is hopeful of securing a second term and will approach the Taliban for peace talks after the election process.

‘No signal’ for ISRO & Kashmiris, and Patanjali sales chart ‘performs Shirshasana’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

3 reasons why Trump called off peace deal with Taliban that no one in US wanted to touch

While naysayers are quick to point to all the pitfalls that will follow an agreement with the Taliban, no one has alternatives to offer.

US President Trump declares Afghan peace talks with Taliban are ‘dead’

Trump called off the meet after Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack in Kabul, in which an American soldier was among those killed.

Trump has avoided a bad deal with Taliban that was unlikely to bring peace to Afghanistan

Instead of seeing Taliban for what they are, Khalilzad and his team approached them as ‘noble savages’ battling for their traditional religious values.

Trump was right to cancel talks with Taliban but all is not lost

Most insurgencies end in a negotiation. If the Taliban are unwilling to accept a peaceful outcome the US should walk away from the table.

On Camera

The govt’s ‘fix’ to speed up insolvency could add at least a year to the process

The proposed amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code aims to reduce timelines and provide for a mechanism that involves minimal interaction with the court. It fails on both counts.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘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.