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40 years of ups and downs in India's Afghan policy
3 years, 3 months ago

40 years of ups and downs in India's Afghan policy

India Today  

Afghanistan as an item on India's foreign policy balance sheet has turned out to be a loss-making proposition more times than one. India supported Najibullah but relations with Afghanistan worsened as Islamist forces took charge in Kabul; President Najibullah was shot, castrated and his body was left hanging from a lamp post. India maintained an airbase at Farkhor, Tajikistan, very …

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Taliban takeover pushes Afghanistan into chaos
3 years, 4 months ago

Taliban takeover pushes Afghanistan into chaos

The Hindu  

THE LIGHTNING SPEED AND THE EASE WITH which the Taliban forces retook the Afghan capital, Kabul, on August 15 after 20 years have taken everybody by surprise. When the Taliban took power for the first time in 1996, one of the first things it did was to torture and hang Mohammed Najibullah, the last secular leader of Afghanistan who had …

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Ashraf Ghani: The Pashtun Who Cut and Ran As Afghanistan Fell to Taliban
3 years, 4 months ago

Ashraf Ghani: The Pashtun Who Cut and Ran As Afghanistan Fell to Taliban

The Quint  

Amongst the fierce Pashtuns, the Ahmadzais of the Ghilji confederacy, have an illustrious history of valour and conquest. The Ghilji tribesmen were at the forefront of decimating the retreating 16,000 British East India Company soldiers, of whom only one was deliberately let off to tell the tale of Ghilji ferociousness — British survivor William Brydon, whose wartime accounts of the …

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Afghanistan: A subdued Ashura under Taliban rule
3 years, 4 months ago

Afghanistan: A subdued Ashura under Taliban rule

Al Jazeera  

Some worshippers wary of Taliban reprisal, despite assurances from the group that Shia minority would not be harmed. The streets leading to the shrine, including from Kabul University, used to be shut to traffic as masses of people holding banners reading: “Ya Hussein” made their way up the hill and into the shrine. Taliban assurances Assurances like the Taliban’s are …

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Najibullah and Ghani: Taliban and a tale of two Afghan presidents, 25 years apart
3 years, 4 months ago

Najibullah and Ghani: Taliban and a tale of two Afghan presidents, 25 years apart

India Today  

Ashraf Ghani was not the first Afghan president to lose power in Afghanistan to the Taliban. While Ashraf Ghani escaped, with loads of cash as per Russian reports, from Afghanistan, saying he wanted to "avoid bloodshed" in Kabul, Najibullah was not that fortunate. Ashraf Ghani: A contrasting tale Afghanistan's President since 2014, Ashraf Ghani was at the helm of Afghan …

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US unseals charges over kidnapping of journalists in Afghanistan
4 years, 1 month ago

US unseals charges over kidnapping of journalists in Afghanistan

Al Jazeera  

The US claims Haji Najibullah was involved in the 2008 kidnapping of a US journalist and two Afghan nationals. The US Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging Haji Najibullah, an Afghanistan national, with six counts related to the 2008 kidnapping of an American journalist and two Afghan nationals. Najibullah is facing charges, including hostage taking, conspiracy to commit …

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