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…
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.…
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…
Despite reassurances by Taliban, China fears terror surge…
With the Afghan badlands witnessing unprecedented and swift changes, all countries in the vicinity—Pakistan, Central Asian republics, India, China and Russia—are worried. Many have opened up to the Taliban to make peace and put forward…
Afghan humanitarian crisis grows bigger with Kabul under…
The Afghan women have pulled out their burqas. The men have stopped shaving their faces. People are withdrawing their money. The poor are lining up on borders that Pakistan has closed while the rich are…
Kabul retaliates as Taliban attacks kids, women, Sikhs
With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani deciding to launch a military offensive against the Taliban, the US-Taliban bilateral peace deal is fast unraveling. Ever since the US signed a peace deal with the Taliban on February…