By Rezaul H Laskar India has for the first time opened channels of communication with Afghan Taliban factions and leaders, including Mullah Baradar, against the backdrop of the rapid drawdown…
By Liu Zongyi Against the backdrop of the US and NATO unilaterally pushing ahead troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, risks of turmoil are growing. To responsibly respond to this, Chinese State…
'Ruling Kashmir with fear has its price’ "It would be wrong to presume that the separatist sentiment has gone away," - doyen of the Kashmiri media By Syed Firdaus Ashraf…
By Tavleen Singh Why is it so hard for the Prime Minister not to see that the lines between nationalism and anti-nationalism have become so blurred that the wrong people…
The move signals an acknowledgment by Western intelligence agencies that they are preparing for the likely collapse of the central government and a return to civil war By Thomas Gibbons-Neff…
By Imtiaz Gul Should the seizure of some 2.5 kilogrammes of unprocessed uranium from four Nepalese nationals and the arrest of Nepalese nationals in Kathmandu ring alarm internationally? Of course.…
Ruination Britain's justifications for invading were having influence and deterring terror They are just neo-imperialist platitudes By Simon Jenkins The longest, most pointless and unsuccessful war that Britain has fought…
By Ishaan Tharoor There's power in cliches, even if they may not always be true. In recent years, myriad commentators have invoked the old saw about Afghanistan as a “graveyard…
By M. K. Bhadrakumar One missing part in US President Joe Biden's remarks Wednesday announcing troop withdrawal from Afghanistan was that he didn't order a commission of inquiry into the…
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