The 1971 Indo-Pak war started after the Pakistani Air Force launched strikes on 11 Indian airbases on 3 December 1971. For India, this was a two-front war as its forces were arrayed on the Western…
‘Pakistani Army is like a hedge fund that…
Pakistan’s economy has been in the news for almost two years now – rising inflation, food riots, chasing the International Monetary Fund (IMF), selling off national assets, and asking friendly nations to boost dipping foreign…
Why US attempts to return to Afghanistan by…
Soon after US CENTCOM Commander General Michael Erik Kurilla visited Pakistani Army headquarters in Rawalpindi, Washington is now sending Special Representative for Afghanistan, Thomas West, and Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights,…
Taliban keeps China on tenterhooks over lithium mining…
The frenzied exit of US troops in 2021 brought the Chinese rushing in to fill the vaccume in Afghanistan. The Chinese government and businessmen were keen to extract lithium, which has taken a place of…
Afghanistan bans Swedish NGOs from charitable work over…
Annoyed by the burning of the Quran in front of a mosque in Sweden on the Muslim festival of Eid, the Taliban government suspended all Swedish activities on Tuesday in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.…
Why is Amazon facing women’s wrath for selling…
Global online retailer, Amazon is selling burqas which has raised a storm on social media. The burqas it is selling are the ones that Afghan women wear, a head-to-toe covering with a wire-mesh for the…
Maldives arrests 13 in crackdown on terror groups
A joint counter-terror operation is underway in the Maldives where the Maldives police and the defence forces have arrested 13 people. The operation was launched on Saturday. The Maldivian media has reported that nine people…
Meet Anil Kumar Baloch—the ‘nomad’ from Balochistan, Afghanistan,…
Anil Kumar Baloch has spent almost half of his life in India. He spent the other half in Balochistan, Afghanistan, Russia and Kazakhstan. Now that he has settled in India, he is working in medical…
With fifty shades of militants—will Taliban ruled Afghanistan…
The multiple deadly bombings at the Kabul airport, have highlighted two things—the vulnerabilities of the ruling Taliban and the frail reality of Afghanistan overrun by terrorists of all kinds. Nearly four decades of conflict has…