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Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed a concerning escalation in terrorist activities, with nine attacks targeting non-local laborers, marketplaces, security forces, and civilian infrastructure.
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In a shocking development, Pakistan on Monday carried out airstrikes in the Afghanistan provinces of Paktika and Khost along the Pakistan border that killed eight civilians, including three children and women, Afghan Taliban stated
With an aim to pressuirze the neighboring countries, several Southeast Asian countries and Pakistan, Taliban-controlled Afghanistan remain committed to the one-China principle recognising Beijing as the only legitimate government of the entire Chinese territory following elections in Taiwan.
The Afghanistan embassy Friday announced the permanent closure of its operations in New Delhi and said: “that this decision is a result of broader changes in policy and interests”.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that "Bhagwan Hanuman's mace" (Bajrangbali ki gada) is the only panacea for “Talibani mindset” that has been crushing countries in the Middle East.
There has been recent targeted killings of designated terrorists by unknown assailants on Pakistani soil. The security forces in the country are failing miserably.
China became the first country to formally name a new ambassador to Afghanistan after its envoy presented credentials at a ceremony in Kabul.
The Taliban government has now imposed a ban on women from entering the Band-e-Amir National Park located in Afghanistan's Bamiyan province, continuing its restrictions against gender equality and freedom of movement in the country
This article is a summary of important events that have taken place in last one week affecting, India's national security . India says it is unacceptable the whole team has decided to pull out of the games.
The UN's top expert on rights in Afghanistan urged countries Monday to consider making "gender apartheid" an international crime, helping hold the Taliban accountable for its grave and systematic abuses against Afghan women.
Former Pakistan Army Chief General Bajwa was heckled and abused in France on Sunday during a family vacation by an Afghan civilian. The man reportedly criticized Bajwa over Pakistan Army’s human rights violations, misconduct, and being handed in gloves with the Taliban to loot Afghanistan. A video of the same has surfaced on the internet.
A power struggle is underway at the Afghan embassy in Delhi as Ambassador Farid Mamundzay, appointed by the previous Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, battles to stay on in office in defiance of the Taliban-run Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul.
As the Chinese economy slows down, the new emperor of China Xi Jinping is finding new ways to burn money. After announcing a railway project connecting Xinjiang in China to Pakistan in late April, it now wants to invest in Taliban Controlled Afghanistan under the Belt and Road Initiative(BRI).
The UN has said it is ready to withdraw from Afghanistan in May if it cannot convince the Taliban to permit local women to work for the organization, the head of the UN Development Program said, Afghanistan-based Khaama Press reported.
At least 9 personnel of the Balochistan Constabulary were killed, while 13 others sustained injuries in a suicide bomb attack in Bolan.
The Afghan Taliban leaders have promised to cooperate with Pakistan on its concerns about the presence of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants and sanctuaries on their soil after Islamabad delivered a stark warning to them to rein in the outlawed outfit amid a rise in terror attacks across the country.
At least 5 militants and 4 people, including rangers and police personnel, were killed after a Pakistan Taliban suicide squad barged into a police compound Friday in the port city of Karachi.
India on Wednesday (February 1, 2023) announced a development assistance of Rs 200 crore for Afghanistan in its Union Budget for 2023-24. Taliban welcomed the Indian announcement and said that it will contribute to boosting relations and trust between the two countries.
For the first time, the Taliban reported threats from Pakistan, which they considered as the safe haven from 2000-2021, independent journalist Bilal Sarwary said citing an internal memo. Taking to Twitter, Sarwary said, "A leaked Taliban internal memo reports an ISKP training camp inside Pak's tribal area&warns of ISKP massing from Pak into Logar. This is an interesting twist in the story with first-time Taliban reports of threats from Pakistan where they once had their safe havens from 2002-2021."
Tributes poured in on Monday for a former Afghan female lawmaker who was shot and killed by gunmen in her home in the capital of Kabul the previous day. The slaying was the first time a lawmaker from the previous administration was killed in the city since the Taliban takeover.
This article is a summary of important events that have taken place in last one week affecting, India's national security. In last one week the media has reported many sensational crimes against women. How do we make India safe for women?
Javed Akhtar, in the TV interview, compared the Taliban to RSS and VHP in the backdrop of the radical outfit seizing power in Afghanistan in August 2021.
Unidentified gunmen attacked a hotel popular with Chinese business people in the Afghan capital Monday, with witnesses reporting multiple blasts and several bursts of gunfire. Smoke could be seen pouring from the multi-story Kabul Longan Hotel as Taliban security forces rushed to the site and sealed off the neighborhood.
This article is a summary of important events that have taken place in the last one week affecting India's national security. The domestic and commercial production of spurious liquor in Punjab has come under intense scrutiny of the Supreme Court.
An Afghan man convicted of murder was executed in public Wednesday, the Taliban said, the first confirmation of such punishment since the hardline Islamists returned to power.
V-Dem Institute released updates to its Academic Freedom Index, where they compared academic freedom scores in 2005 with those in 2021 and has placed India in the Botton 20% group out of 177 countries.
Their fathers sit on the rides with them, or look on, taking photos - rare moments of joy in Afghanistan where the news is often so bleak. But mothers are now denied the right to share in the memories the children here are making. Women are banned from visiting parks in Kabul by the hardline ruling Taliban.
India joined the latest meeting of the ‘Moscow format consultations on Afghanistan’ that was held on Wednesday in the Russian capital. The Moscow format — one of the several dialogue platforms in Afghanistan — which began before the Taliban takeover of Kabul, consists of Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and India. Joint Secretary in charge of the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran division of the Ministry of External Affairs, J.P. Singh, represented India a
A woman in Afghanistan's Ghor province died by suicide before Taliban forces could kill her for running away from home, local media reported citing local Taliban. According to Khaama Press, the Taliban planned to stone the woman, who ran away from home with a married man, on Friday, but before that, she took her life to avoid public humiliation.
The US-Pakistan relationship is old and the US has always used Pakistan to check its rivals in the region despite knowing the fact that Pakistan is not totally loyal to it.
In a huge blunder, Pakistan Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar admitted that Pakistan acts as a "spokesperson" for the Taliban.
A group of Shia Hazaras on Wednesday protested here against the recent spate of targeted killings against its community in Afghanistan.
A suicide blast at an education institute in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul has killed 19 people and injured 27 others, reported news agency Reuters quoting a Kabul police spokesperson.
Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban has signed an agreement with Russia to import fuel and wheat at a discount as the country struggles to feed its population and seeks to boost regional trade a year after regaining power.
An evacuation flight carrying people from the Sikh minority in Afghanistan -- who are fleeing the Taliban rule -- arrived in India Sunday. Upon arrival, one of them expressed happiness for having fled the country, which plunged into a crisis after the Taliban returned to power last year, overthrowing the Ashraf Ghani-led government.
Countries like India and Pakistan banned PUBG for many reasons including national security and promoting violence. Following suit, the Taliban is also going to ban the game. Playerunknown's Battlegrounds Mobile, often known as PUBG Mobile, will be outlawed by the Taliban within the next three months for encouraging violence.
A group of 60 Afghan Sikhs was reportedly stopped by the Taliban-led Afghanistan government from leaving the country as they were carrying holy Sikh scriptures with them. Notably, the Afghan Sikh group was scheduled to arrive in India on September 11. The Sikhs were reportedly stopped from ferrying the religious scriptures as they were termed to be the heritage of Afghanistan.
Hazara communities in Afghanistan are targeted in violent attacks by the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan, with more than 700 people killed in 13 attacks in the past year, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.
After Monday’s explosion near Russian Embassy in Kabul, Taliban-appointed Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi held a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
This article is a summary of important events that have taken place in last one week affecting, India's national security . Attempt has also been made to analyze these events and recommend certain specific actions that can be undertaken by us.
Japan's recognition of the Afghan refugees could affect its future acceptance of people fleeing from countries experiencing conflict including Myanmar and Ukraine.
A huge explosion struck a mosque in Kabul during evening prayers on Wednesday, witnesses and police said, with many feared dead or injured.
This article is a summary of important defence related events that have taken place in last one week affecting, India's national security. Attempt has also been made to analyze these events and recommend certain specific actions that can be undertaken by India.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said a team of Indian diplomats, except the ambassador, have gone to Afghanistan as India will continue its people-to-people relationship in view of its long historic ties with the Afghan society.
The heaving wards of a ramshackle clinic in southern Afghanistan are just one sign of the catastrophic humanitarian crisis that has gripped the war-ravaged country since the Taliban returned to power a year ago.
Ayman al-Zawahiri was staying at the home of New York Times columnist Sirajuddin Haqqani. Haqqani wrote a column for NYTimes on what the Taliban wants just months before the Islamist group took over Afghanistan.
Currently, 110 Afghan Hindus and Sikhs are remaining in Afghanistan and 61 e-visa applications are pending with the central government for issuance.
While India underlined the potential of Chabahar port for SCO's economic future, Pakistan's Foreign Minister promoted the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor for trans-regional trade, including in a meeting with Taliban-appointed Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is likely to hold a bilateral meeting with Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers’ meeting being held under the Uzbek presidency.
Another batch of 21 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus will land in Delhi on Thursday as the evacuation and shifting of Afghan minorities to India continues.
