- 24 November, 2024
Foreign Affairs, Geopolitics & National SecurityTaliban
U.S. delegation met with Afghan Taliban representatives in Qatar -State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. delegation led by the special representative for Afghanistan, Thomas West, held talks with senior Afghan Taliban representatives in Qatar on Monday and Tuesday, the U.S. State…
Exclusive-UAE holds talks with Taliban to run Kabul airport – foreign diplomats
By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has held talks with the Taliban to run Kabul airport, going up against Gulf rival Qatar in a diplomatic tussle…
Taliban to purge ‘people of bad character’ from ranks
By Jibran Ahmad KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Taliban have formed a commission to purge "people of bad character" from their ranks to protect Afghanistan's reputation, the group said on…
Pakistan and The Paradox of Power
One of the immutable, if also somewhat counter-intuitive, laws of Pakistani politics is best described as the Paradox of Power. According to this, the stronger a politician appears, the weaker…
By Sushant Sareen
Delhi Declaration-Forging a Consensus on Afghanistan
The meeting of the National Security Advisers in New Delhi on November 10 had multi-layered significance. The initiative underlined India’s national security equities in Afghanistan. These equities are undeniable given…
By Kanwal Sibal
U.N. envoy says Islamic State now appears present in all Afghan provinces
By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.N. envoy to Afghanistan on Wednesday delivered a bleak assessment of the situation following the Taliban takeover, saying that an affiliate of the Islamic…
Islamic State claims twin blasts in Afghan capital Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) -Islamic State claimed responsibility for two explosions that hit a heavily Shi'ite Muslim area of the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding…
Blast in Afghan capital wounds two
KABUL (Reuters) -A bomb blast in the Afghan capital of Kabul wounded two people on Monday, the Taliban's interior ministry said, just two days after a similar explosion that was…
Pakistan: Cooking Up Half-Baked ‘Raw’ Stories
In recent days, the Pakistani state and military establishment has had to make two stunning U-turns to kowtow before ‘Indian agents’. The first was a humiliating surrender to the Tehrik-e-Labbaik…
By Sushant Sareen
Blast in eastern Afghanistan mosque before Friday prayers wounds several
KABUL (Reuters) -An explosion hit a mosque just before Friday prayers in the Spin Ghar district of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan, wounding at least 12 people including the imam…
A million Afghan children at risk of dying amid acute malnutrition, WHO says
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Around 3.2 million children are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in Afghanistan by the end of this year, with 1 million of them at…
Regional Meeting of NSAs, A Timely Initiative
One of the prime reasons for the timely initiative on Afghanistan taken by India’s National Security Advisor (NSA) is the serious effort by both Pakistan and China to deny an…
By Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
