Afghan Crisis

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The concerns that are shared and reflected in the Delhi Declaration are: drug trafficking; refuge to terrorist organisations and their leaders; the impending humanitarian crisis due to the onset of winter and the paucity of resources with the Taliban regime. Representational Image. (AFP)

K.C. Singh | Tackling Taliban-run Af: Difficult path lies ahead

Eight nations issued a joint Delhi Declaration, with twelve sub paras stressing, recalling, condemning or emphasising the salient issues

12 Nov 2021 3:07 AM

External affairs minister S. Jaishankar with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon. (Photo: Twitter/@DrSJaishankar)

Sanjaya Baru | India’s ‘multi-alignment’ and the Jaishankar Way

The US is emphasising its continued relevance to the Indo-Pacific and India is hedging against future US unpredictability

20 Sep 2021 7:28 AM

PM Modi to raise concerns on Afghanistan at SCO summit

The SCO meeting will be chaired by Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, and the situation in Afghanistan is expected to be the main focus

16 Sep 2021 7:07 AM

The Taliban’s policy of talk-and-fight had by the beginning of last summer positioned them to catapult themselves into power. Image of Taliban flags flutter at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)

K.C. Singh | Taliban-Pak nexus poses new challenges for India

Lurking unseen has been Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which was planning and guiding the Taliban advance

09 Sep 2021 11:47 PM

NSA Ajit Doval welcomes Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev for a bilateral meeting on security cooperation, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Sep 8, 2021. (PTI)

India, Russia put Pakistan on notice over Afghanistan

The Russian dignitary also later called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and met external affairs minister S. Jaishankar

09 Sep 2021 6:42 AM

The anger of men remains more acceptable than that of women, especially women of colour. (Twitter)

Shreya Sen-Handley | Square up in Kabul, look forward in rage

Behind every successful pacific political movement, there’s controlled, empowering anger

05 Sep 2021 2:41 AM

The 'XR' activists were joined by 'Animal Rebellion' activists who went on to pour red colour in the iconic fountain outside the Buckingham Palace gates. (Twitter)

10K-plus Brits wish to host Afghans; climate rebels dye Palace fountain red

As chaos prevails and the region gets further destabilised, undoubtedly borders will get erased

30 Aug 2021 4:28 AM

Referring to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Owaisi demanded that the Centre clarify whether it would re-designate 100 Taliban leaders who have been labelled as terrorists by the United Nations. — ANI

Maharashtra: Scores of Congress, NCP activists join AIMIM

Owaisi declared that AIMIM will contest all the upcoming municipal corporation polls in Maharashtra and register decent victories

29 Aug 2021 11:57 PM

Saeed Naqvi | Afghan in mess, but Biden’s end to US ‘forever wars’ welcome

What happened in Afghanistan was a process set into motion as early as the 1970s, where imperial interests were directly involved

29 Aug 2021 3:24 AM

Smoke rises from a deadly explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Two suicide bombers and gunmen have targeted crowds massing near the Kabul airport, in the waning days of a massive airlift that has drawn thousands of people seeking to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. (AP/Wali Sabawoon)

Suicide bombers kill dozens of civilians, 10 U.S. troops at Kabul airport

There was no complete death toll of Afghan civilians but video images uploaded by Afghan journalists showed bodies of people killed

27 Aug 2021 4:47 AM

An Indian embassy staff member with his family arrives at Air force base, in Jamnagar, India, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. A special military flight with Indian officials landed in Gujarat after taking off from Kabul's main airport on Tuesday. (Gujarat State Information Office via AP)

India evacuates its envoys, empties Kabul office

About 120 Indian diplomats and security personnel were flown back from Kabul, through a longer route via Iranian airspace to avoid Pakistan

18 Aug 2021 7:10 AM

U.S soldiers stand guard along a perimeter at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021.

Afghan crisis: India bringing back its envoy, officials from Kabul

The ambassador and his Indian staff will move to India immediately considering the current circumstances in Kabul

17 Aug 2021 12:32 PM

Mohan Guruswamy | It’s not for India to clean up the Afghanistan mess

If that Afghan situation were to boil over it will spill out mostly into Pakistan, a country quite dedicated to our destruction

08 Jun 2021 7:15 AM

An underlying cause of anxiety is the growing threat of the militant Islamic State group spreading its tentacles in the war-torn country. (Photo: AFP)

Afghan peace needs Kabul, Islamabad to work in sync

Not surprisingly, the US was not invited to the Moscow initiated process.

06 Jan 2017 12:52 AM

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