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PoK protests, Islamabad's repression blow apart farce created by PakistanPakistan's army chief's international peacemaker image clashes with domestic repression, particularly in 'Azad Kashmir'. Protests demanding...
'Sit back and relax': Can Trump afford to go back to war with Iran?US President Trump's cautious optimism regarding Iran negotiations has been shattered as Tehran suspends talks, citing Israeli actions in L...
Is Donald Trump losing Iran war? Strait of Hormuz holds keyDonald Trump is now at risk of seeing the U.S. and its Gulf Arab allies emerge from the conflict worse off while Iran, though battered mili...
Three months in, is Trump losing the Iran war?America's military actions against Iran three months ago are now being questioned. President Trump faces doubts about achieving a clear geo...
Guns, drones & algos: War gets smarter, faster & uncomfortably less humanArtificial intelligence is revolutionizing global warfare. Nations are significantly increasing AI spending for defense. This technology en...
India watches, Pakistan acts: The optics war Delhi is losingPakistan's diplomatic engagement with Iran is earning praise, contrasting with India's cautious stance. Pakistan's efforts are creating opp...
India’s Afghan outreach, tied to Central Asia and the Arab world, aims far beyond countering PakistanIndia is strengthening its ties with Afghanistan, upgrading its mission to an embassy. This move seeks to counter cross-border terrorism an...
Trump says US seeks control of Afghanistan's Bagram air base given up in withdrawalDuring a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, President Donald Trump stated the United States is actively pursui...
Taliban accuse US of 'usurping' Afghanistan's frozen assetsThe new Afghan Fund, based in Geneva, will not provide humanitarian assistance but will be put in charge of core central bank functions suc...
International community cannot 'exonerate' itself from responsibilities towards Afghanistan: Pakistan PM Imran KhanKhan said decades of war has had a devastating impact on Afghanistan's economy, society and polity and there is a "ray of hope" to bring pe...
China not outright winner from Taliban takeover: European think-tankThe ECFR has published a detailed paper on the ‘The fall of the Afghan government and what it means for Europe’ with wide ranging focus on ...
Post-US withdrawal, China asks Taliban to make 'clean break' with terror groups, form inclusive govt for recognition"Afghanistan is broken free from foreign military intervention and the Afghan people are standing at a new starting point of peace and reco...
Ahead of G7 leaders meet on Afghanistan, China says sanctions against Taliban not productiveAhead of the meeting, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who will chair the emergency G7 virtual meet to coordinate international respon...
'Imbecilic': Ex-UK leader Tony Blair slams Afghan withdrawal"The abandonment of Afghanistan and its people is tragic, dangerous, unnecessary, not in their interests and not in ours," said Blair who s...
''Imbecilic'': Ex-UK leader Tony Blair slams Afghanistan withdrawalIn a lengthy essay posted on his website late Saturday, the former Labour Party leader said the sudden and chaotic pullout that allowed the...
View: Twenty years later, the Taliban are more confident, and the West weaker in its resolveLast Friday, US President Joe Biden was a casualty of a sub-editor’s creative ingenuity. Reporting his much-awaited announcement on Afghani...
'Cannot be out of the bandwagon': Army Chief General Bipin Rawat on talks with TalibanHis remarks at the army’s annual press conference comes a day after he stated at the Raisina Dialogue that talks between the Taliban in Afg...
US to have 9,800 troops in Afghanistan post 2014: President Barack Obama"I think Americans have learned that it's harder to end wars than it is to begin them," Obama said.
How US' hypocrisy in its Afghan policy will have repercussions for IndiaA continued approach based on reward for Pakistan and punishing airstrikes in Afghanistan would make the latter’s future more uncertain tha...
- Unilateral US action in Pakistan could 'backfire': report
Strong suggestions by the US that it could resort to unilateral intervention against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan are generating in...