View: Can Taliban tame ETIM, checkmate ISIS-K and ensure China’s security?ETIM’s move to align with the ISIS-Khorasan or the ISIS-K, a banned terror outfit which has accused the Taliban of abandoning jihad in favo...
07 Sep, 2021, 10.53 AM IST
Taliban: A strategic analysis of the Islamist group's historic riseTaliban advances in 2021 are not very much different from the advances of 1994-1998 except that this time the advance is much faster than t...
15 Aug, 2021, 12.07 PM IST
Afghanistan: India should also abhor a vacuumIndia has an important strategic interest in the survival of a viable Afghanistan that is not ISI’s puppet. It should step up support for t...
16 Jul, 2021, 11.57 PM IST
India’s Afghan projects face higher risk after Pak army, ISI’s ‘role’ in Ghazni attackOne of the major goals of Pakistan’s deep state is to reduce India’s involvement in Afghanistan and expand its influence in the country, ac...
23 Aug, 2018, 08.44 AM IST
Afghan stability key to India's Eurasian outreachThe Heart of Asia and other Dialogue processes in both limited and wider formats seem to yield little result as far as reconciliation is co...
01 Feb, 2018, 09.58 AM IST
US imposes sanctions on Pakistani extremists & entitiesThe sanctions in particular have been imposed against Hayatullah Ghulam Muhammad (Haji Hayatullah) and Ali Muhammad Abu Turab, Inayat-ur Ra...
12 May, 2017, 01.02 PM IST
ISIS continues to recruit from Af-Pak border region: UN reportThe report noted that a UN Member State reported that ISIS had around 2,000 to 3,500 fighters in Afghanistan but that number had not fallen...
10 Feb, 2017, 04.57 PM IST
ISI made Haqqani Taliban's No. 2 to protect him from US: Report"The shift is also raising tensions with the Pakistani military, which American and Afghan officials accuse of sheltering the Haqqanis as a...
08 May, 2016, 02.55 PM IST
Top Taliban leader Mullah Omar was sheltered by ISI in 2001, says email received by Hillary ClintonThe US too has insisted that it has no such evidence in this regard. However, an email written to Clinton on August 25, 2010 indicates othe...
01 Sep, 2015, 01.17 PM IST
Only small number of Indian youth join ISIS: GovernmentChaudhary said the government is closely monitoring the situation and has directed the intelligence agencies to identify such elements and ...
17 Dec, 2014, 04.29 PM IST
Shia outfit announces reward of Rs 1 crore on ISIS, Taliban chief"At the meeting of our all India executive, we discussed the matter of putting reward on killing of persons heading five organsations invol...
08 Sep, 2014, 10.02 PM IST
Cannabis production in Afghanistan could intensify terror activities: ReportA detailed report prepared by an Indian intelligence agency has cautioned that cannabis production is emerging as a major threat to securit...
07 Oct, 2013, 04.33 AM IST
- India has legit stake in Afghanistan: Top US Gen
India has "without question" legitimate interests in Afghanistan, the top American military commander for the region told US lawmakers on T...
01 Jul, 2010, 04.06 AM IST
- ISI-Taliban ties worry US Afghan commander
The new commander in Afghanistan, Gen David Petraeus has expressed doubts about the nature of the ISI’s link with Taliban groups in Afghani...
01 Jul, 2010, 03.20 AM IST
- Pak rejects ISI's link with Taliban
Pak has rejected a report claiming that ISI has links with Taliban.
14 Jun, 2010, 12.00 PM IST
- US wants me on terror list: Pak former ISI chief
Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul, former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency said that the United States wants him on a UN li...
08 Dec, 2008, 10.16 PM IST
- Pak officers, ISI colluding with Taliban: US think tank
Even as the one-month-old peace deal between the Pakistani government and the Taliban collapsed in the Swat valley, a leading US think-tank...
11 Jun, 2008, 02.05 AM IST