New road to Kabul: India balances commerce, strategy and Afghan voicesIndia's strategic outreach to the Taliban regime is fostering renewed trade ties, particularly for Afghan traders like Mushtaq Karim in Del...
07 Dec, 2025, 07.46 AM IST
China to offer Taliban tariff-free trade as Afghanistan inches closer to becoming isolated resource-rich regimeChina plans to offer tariff-free access to Afghanistan's resources, including lithium, copper, and iron, to help stabilize the Taliban-cont...
25 Oct, 2024, 12.11 PM IST
Taliban controls the world’s best performing currency this quarterYet the paring of the currency’s losses seen after regime change also belies the dramatic upheaval that persists on the ground with Afghani...
26 Sep, 2023, 10.44 PM IST
Taliban seeks economic self-sufficiency and foreign investment for Afghanistan, minister saysAlready facing a lack of formal recognition and sanctions hampering the country's banking sector, investors are faced with growing security...
02 Jan, 2023, 01.18 PM IST
View: The other AfghanistanThe emergence of a peaceful, stable and economically developing Afghanistan will provide a completely different geopolitics for Eurasia. So...
12 Oct, 2021, 10.20 AM IST
China moves fast to engage Taliban Govt eyeing Aynak copper minesThe reserves of an estimated 240 million tonnes of 2.3 percent grade copper are believed to be worth at least $50billion. China’s Jiangxi C...
15 Sep, 2021, 11.24 PM IST
China mum on reports of Taliban inviting it to attend Afghan govt inauguration ceremonyBeijing, which has kept its Embassy open in Kabul along with Pakistan and Russia, is awaiting the formation of a government by the Taliban ...
06 Sep, 2021, 06.29 PM IST
China is our most important partner, says TalibanChina has been making some positive statements towards the Taliban and has expressed the hope that the insurgents will follow moderate and ...
04 Sep, 2021, 06.27 PM IST
View: Will India's investments in Afghanistan amount to anything?That fear has now become a reality India will have to reckon with. Its security establishment how has to assess whether Kashmir will once a...
30 Aug, 2021, 04.07 PM IST
China eyes Afghanistan’s $1 trillion of minerals with risky bet on TalibanFor that scenario to have even a remote possibility, much depends on what happens the next few weeks. Although the U.S. is racing to evacua...
25 Aug, 2021, 11.35 AM IST
EU acknowledges India’s decisive role: Bilateral roadmap to prevent recreation of ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’Besides being invited to six-party talks on the future of Afghanistan and Heart of Asia meet, India is also working with regional parties I...
05 May, 2021, 12.33 PM IST
India-Afghanistan trade volume can reach $3 billion in few years: Shaida Mohammad AbdaliAfghanistan today said its trade with India has the potential to reach $ 3 billion in a short period of time from $ 600 million.
28 Aug, 2014, 09.20 PM IST
PM’s N-Deal that changed landscape of India-US ties stalled over Nuclear Liability ActFive years after the landmark agreement, not a single US nuclear firm has been able to make much headway.
06 Jan, 2014, 05.00 AM IST
Indo-Pak DGMOs agree not to escalate tension along LoCTop military commanders of India and Pakistan today agreed not to allow escalation of tensions along the Line of Control (LoC).
17 Jan, 2013, 02.15 AM IST
US seal on India’s key role in rebuilding AfghanistanIndia is being courted to replicate the successful project to connect Afghanistan to its other Central Asian neighbours.
21 Oct, 2012, 01.44 AM IST
Uncle Sam's decline and rise of ChinaThe most enduring images of what is known as the "9/11 decade" are of suicide bombings, Predators, dead al-Qaeda leaders and new al-Qaeda l...
11 Sep, 2011, 10.20 AM IST
Chinese mining companies make inroads into Gilgit's mineral-rich regionMore than a 100 local right defenders are locked up in Pakistani jails for denying space to the Chinese and Pakistani mining companies in t...
30 Jun, 2011, 10.25 AM IST