If Taliban moves towards India, air strike is ready: Yogi Adityanath
3 years, 2 months ago

If Taliban moves towards India, air strike is ready: Yogi Adityanath

Deccan Chronicle  

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said that Pakistan and Afghanistan are "feeling disturbed" by the Taliban, but if the insurgent group moves towards India, "an air strike is ready". But, the Taliban knows if it moves towards India, an air strike is ready," he said. According to a statement issued by the Uttar Pradesh unit of the BJP, Adityanath, referring apparently to SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar, said, "His thought process is confined only to the development of his family." He said that the "followers of Muhammad Ghori and invader Ghazi fear that if a a Suheldev memorial is built, people will forget Ghazi, and trash those indulging in political blackmailing.

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India keen to engage with Taliban regime to tackle humanitarian crisis, claims Ex-Afghan Intelligence Chief
2 years, 1 month ago

India keen to engage with Taliban regime to tackle humanitarian crisis, claims Ex-Afghan Intelligence Chief

India TV News  

Amid the grim situation in war-torn Afghanistan, its former Intelligence Chief believes India is willing to engage with the Taliban to restore normalcy in the debt-ridden country. While speaking at the sidelines of a conference of anti-Taliban Afghan leaders with the United States and European Union representatives, the former intelligence chief asserted that New Delhi exhibited an interest in engaging …

Gradual engagement: The Hindu Editorial on India-Taliban ties
2 years, 7 months ago

Gradual engagement: The Hindu Editorial on India-Taliban ties

The Hindu  

India’s decision to send a diplomatic delegation to Kabul to meet with Taliban officials shows a marked difference from the policy New Delhi took in the 1990s when the Sunni Islamist group was in power in Afghanistan. But this time, Afghanistan’s internal situation and the regional dynamics seem to be different, prompting many neighbouring countries to adopt a more constructive …

India, US call on Taliban to adhere to commitments, say Afghan soil mustn't be used to attack any country
3 years, 3 months ago

India, US call on Taliban to adhere to commitments, say Afghan soil mustn't be used to attack any country

India Today  

India and the US have called on the Taliban to adhere to its commitments and respect the human rights of all Afghans, including women, children and minority groups, and asked the new rulers in Kabul to make sure that the war-torn country’s territory is never again used to threaten or attack any country or to shelter or train terrorists. The …

Afghanistan: India Monitoring Developments With 'Understandable Concern', Says EAM S Jaishankar At UN High-level Meeting
3 years, 4 months ago

Afghanistan: India Monitoring Developments With 'Understandable Concern', Says EAM S Jaishankar At UN High-level Meeting

ABP News  

New Delhi: Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday spoke about the situation in Afghanistan and India’s views and concerns on the same at the UN High-Level Meeting on the Humanitarian Situation in the country. Speaking at the UN High-Level Meeting on the Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan, Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that as an immediate neighbour, …

Worldview with Suhasini Haidar | 20 years after 9/11, what have we learned?
3 years, 4 months ago

Worldview with Suhasini Haidar | 20 years after 9/11, what have we learned?

The Hindu  

Twenty years ago, the entire world came to a crashing halt, when two planes one after the other struck New York’s iconic Twin towers, and the Pentagon building in Washington. - After attacking Afghanistan in 2001, the US defeated the Taliban, transporting much of its leadership to Guantanamo bay prison to stand trial - Pakistan became an ally in the …

K.C. Singh | India’s options limited as Pakistan makes hay in Kabul
3 years, 4 months ago

K.C. Singh | India’s options limited as Pakistan makes hay in Kabul

Deccan Chronicle  

The fast-moving developments in Afghanistan continue to capture public attention in India. The nature of the next government is critical as even China’s foreign ministry, perhaps paying lip service, sought an “inclusive and widely representative government”, with moderate domestic and foreign policies. Pakistan is in the driver’s seat for now as its close ally Khalil Haqqani is not only near …

Staying invested: on India's relations with Afghanistan
3 years, 4 months ago

Staying invested: on India's relations with Afghanistan

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to ask the MEA to brief all parliamentary parties on the Government’s actions in Afghanistan comes as questions grow about the Government’s planning for contingencies there, with the Taliban’s takeover. With most of the Indians based in Afghanistan returning home, or expected to soon, the Government must face the larger strategic questions over whether the …

A national consensus on Afghanistan
3 years, 4 months ago

A national consensus on Afghanistan

Hindustan Times  

On Monday, external affairs minister S Jaishankar tweeted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked that all floor leaders in Parliament be briefed on developments in Afghanistan. Events in Afghanistan represent a serious national security threat for India, and it is only right that the government shares information and its policy framework with India’s political class. After hearing Opposition leaders …

Moderate Taliban is an oxymoron
3 years, 4 months ago

Moderate Taliban is an oxymoron

Hindustan Times  

Delivering a lecture a month after 9/11 attacks, Jaswant Singh, then external affairs minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet, described a moderate Taliban an oxymoron. Two decades later, after US and allied forces literally ran away from Afghanistan leaving Kabul to the mercy of ultra conservative UN designated terrorist group, the debate has again started on moderate Taliban after its …

Afghanistan Latest News, Kabul Latest News, Kabul News Live, Kabul Airport News Today, Kabul Airport Live, Kabul Airport – India TV
3 years, 4 months ago

Afghanistan Latest News, Kabul Latest News, Kabul News Live, Kabul Airport News Today, Kabul Airport Live, Kabul Airport – India TV

India TV News  

All is not well within Afghanistan. 8:29 PM: Taliban deputy leader and co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar returns to Afghanistan: AFP quoting Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid 8:24 PM: White House official says US has evacuated over 700 people "Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan is open, and flights are able to land and depart, including on the civilian side. …

Taliban takeover: 5 issues facing the Modi government
3 years, 4 months ago

Taliban takeover: 5 issues facing the Modi government

The Hindu  

The Narendra Modi government has not yet commented on events in Afghanistan a day after Taliban militia took over the Arg Presidential Palace in Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Recognising the Taliban regime: Last week after talks comprising 12 countries including India, U.N. representatives and Afghan representatives with the Taliban in Doha, a nine-point statement issued made …

Afghanistan: We have contingency plans, say Govt sources on evacuation of Indian staff from embassy in Kabul
3 years, 5 months ago

Afghanistan: We have contingency plans, say Govt sources on evacuation of Indian staff from embassy in Kabul

India TV News  

India has put in place contingency plans to evacuate hundreds of its officials and citizens from Kabul that has been gripped by fear and panic following reports of Taliban fighters entering the outskirts of the Afghan capital city on Sunday. People familiar with the development said the government will not put the lives of its staffers at the Indian embassy …

Pakistani fighters, Taliban instructed to target India-built assets in Afghanistan
3 years, 5 months ago

Pakistani fighters, Taliban instructed to target India-built assets in Afghanistan

India TV News  

With the Taliban being joined by Pakistanis in Afghanistan in large numbers, their fighters have been instructed by the Inter-Services Intelligence to target the Indian-built assets in the war-torn country, over the last many years. The Indian government has invested over USD 3 billion in the Afghanistan reconstruction effort since the last two decades and the 218-km road between Delaram …

Amid fighting, India pulls out staff from Kandahar consulate
3 years, 6 months ago

Amid fighting, India pulls out staff from Kandahar consulate

The Hindu  

As the Taliban’s claims about taking Afghan territory grow, India has decided to temporarily close its consulate in Kandahar, sending a special Indian Air Force flight to evacuate about 50 diplomats and security personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police back to Delhi, government sources confirmed to The Hindu. “Our aim was to ensure that Indian personnel are safe, and we …

Talking to the Taliban
3 years, 7 months ago

Talking to the Taliban

Hindustan Times  

For more than two years, in the backdrop of America’s plans to draw down its military presence in Afghanistan, there has been an intense debate in India’s strategic community about the utility of engaging some elements of the Afghan Taliban. Engagement could well have triggered questions about the government’s anti-Pakistan, anti-terror hardline security stance and its unwillingness to engage with …

India under PM Modi more likely to respond with military force to Pakistan provocations: US intel report
3 years, 9 months ago

India under PM Modi more likely to respond with military force to Pakistan provocations: US intel report

India Today  

India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is more likely than in the past to respond with military force to perceived or real Pakistani provocations, the US intelligence community has told Congress in a report. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence in its Annual Threat Assessment report to the US Congress, said although a general war between India and …

Afghan peace and India’s elbow room
4 years, 8 months ago

Afghan peace and India’s elbow room

The Hindu  

Earlier this month, the United Nations Secretariat held a meeting of what it calls the “6+2+1” group on regional efforts to support peace in Afghanistan, a group that includes six neighbouring countries: China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; global players the United States and Russia, and Afghanistan itself. New Delhi’s stand As planners in South Block now consider their …

How India has been outplayed in Af-Pak
5 years, 5 months ago

How India has been outplayed in Af-Pak

Deccan Chronicle  

The special representative of the United States of America for surrender negotiations with the Taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad, tweeted on Thursday.“I’m off to Doha, with a stop in Islamabad. In Doha, if the Taliban do their part, we will do ours, and conclude the agreement we have been working on.” In turn, Suhail Shaheen, spokesperson for Taliban’s political office in Doha, …

Election Tracker LIVE: Javadekar Says IAF Carried Out Ops Against Terrorism, Not Against Pak
5 years, 10 months ago

Election Tracker LIVE: Javadekar Says IAF Carried Out Ops Against Terrorism, Not Against Pak

News 18  

Election Tracker LIVE Updates: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said that India has conducted three air strikes in the last five year, but he would tell people only about two. As PM Modi hit out Opposition for questioning Balakot air strikes, Congress president Rahul Gandhi asked the prime minister to tell people who had released JeM chief Masood Azhar …

PM Modi rubbishes critics of air strike, says 130 crore Indians are proof
5 years, 10 months ago

PM Modi rubbishes critics of air strike, says 130 crore Indians are proof

Deccan Chronicle  

Ghaziabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lashed out at those seeking clarity on the damage and casualties inflicted by Indian air strikes on a terror camp in Pakistan's Balakot. Saying that such people were "appeasing Pakistan", PM Modi said Islamabad itself had first tweeted about the air strikes and his government did not seek any credit for it. The …

PM Modi indicates more action to follow air strike in Pakistan
5 years, 10 months ago

PM Modi indicates more action to follow air strike in Pakistan

India TV News  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday indicated that last week’s air strike in Pakistan won’t be India’s last such action against terrorism emanating from the neighbouring country. “If one work gets over, our government doesn’t sleep, but gets ready for another,” Modi said, in a veiled reference to the February 26 air strike on a terror camp in Pakistan. “What our …

India-Pakistan tensions: Narendra Modi, Nirmala Sitharaman maintain silence even as Imran Khan addresses his nation
5 years, 10 months ago

India-Pakistan tensions: Narendra Modi, Nirmala Sitharaman maintain silence even as Imran Khan addresses his nation

Firstpost  

While Imran Khan has responded in a public address after India and Pakistan’s air strikes on Wednesday, India is yet to hear from Prime Minister Narendra Modi There has been a stark contrast in the nature and frequency of media addresses on both sides of the border after the strike by Indian Air Force on a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camp in …

Narendra Modi remains true to word; IAF strikes on JeM camps in Pakistan show sea change in govt policy from UPA era
5 years, 10 months ago

Narendra Modi remains true to word; IAF strikes on JeM camps in Pakistan show sea change in govt policy from UPA era

Firstpost  

The IAF strikes at JeM camps in Pakistan show a change in the line of thinking under the Narendra Modi government as compared to the UPA era when the govt was undecided on striking at Pakistan even after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks “Saugandh mujhe iss mitti ki, Main desh nahi mitne dunga, Main desh nahi jhukne dunga….” This theme …

India should keep close eye on Kabul as General Raziq's death gives ISI crucial role in stabilising Afghanistan
6 years, 2 months ago

India should keep close eye on Kabul as General Raziq's death gives ISI crucial role in stabilising Afghanistan

Firstpost  

The growing strategic depth that the Taliban in Afghanistan has given to Pakistan’s ISI would not be bartered away at any cost, that too at present when it expects greater concessions from Washington, which is willing to negotiate things out In one of latest spate of attacks, the Taliban killed Kandahar police chief Brigadier General Abdul Raziq Achakzai and the …

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