Afghanistan: To recognise, or not to recognise, that’s the...
September 4 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Taliban takes control of Kabul Airport, August 31, 2021
At the weekly briefing in Moscow on Thursday by the Foreign Ministry spoke...
Have right to raise voice for Muslims living in Kashmir, s...
September 4 ,2021
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By: Sajjad Hussain
Suhail Shaheen, Taliban spokesman for its political office in Doha (file photo) | Twitter/@suhailshaheen1
Amid concerns in India t...
Taliban to ‘actively support’ belt and road plan of ‘trust...
September 4 ,2021
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By: Shi Jiangtao
Taliban fighters take control of the Afghan presidential palace in the capital Kabul on August 15. Photo: AP
Afghanistan will cont...
Will US recognize the Taliban regime ?
September 4 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Anthony Blinken
The main question vis-à-vis Afghanistan now is: “Will the US recognize the Taliban government, now th...
India must rethink ‘wait and watch’ Afghan policy
September 3 ,2021
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By: Vivek Katju
Taliban fighters stand guard inside the Hamid Karzai International Airport after the U.S. withdrawal in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Talib...
‘Is Taliban a terrorist organisation or not?’: Omar Abdull...
September 3 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah. Photo: PTI
A day after India officially talked to the Taliban, former Jammu and...
Biden's Afghanistan pullout divides America
September 3 ,2021
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By: WajahaT Khan
U.S. President Joe Biden walks away after delivering remarks on Afghanistan from the White House on Aug. 31. © Reuters...
Taliban says formation of new Afghan gov’t in its final st...
September 1 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The final US military flight has left the Afghan capital, officially ending the United States’s 20-year war in Afghanistan with...
3 reasons Afghanistan withdrawal could ruin US influence i...
August 31 ,2021
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By: Richard Heydarian
Illustration: Craig Stephens
“Defeat is one thing; disgrace is another,” Winston Churchill said of the collapse of Bri...
Gunfire fills the air in Kabul as Taliban celebrate airpor...
August 31 ,2021
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By: Hannah Ellis-Petersen
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As the last US military transport aircraft lifted off from Kabul airport on Monday night, marking the end of two decades o...
Afghanistan’s neighbours offered millions in aid to harbou...
August 31 ,2021
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By: Patrick Wintour
Afghans fleeing the Taliban enter Pakistan through the Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing point in Chaman. Photograph: AFP/Getty Im...
China, our ‘great neighbour’, will help Afghanistan forge...
August 31 ,2021
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By: Amy Chew
A Taliban fighter looks at Taliban flags and posters of leaders in Kabul. Photo: AP
The Taliban hopes to work with China to forge...
US completes Afghanistan troop withdrawal to end 20-year p...
August 31 ,2021
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By: Ryo Nakamura and Ken Moriyasu
Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of the U.S. Central Command, speaks at a virtual briefing moderated by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby...
India will soon know about Taliban's capability to run Afg...
August 27 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Taliban leader Shahabuddin Dilwar speaks to Radio Pakistan correspondent Bilal Khan Mehsud in Kabul on Thursday. — Photo courte...
Kabul airport explosions: What we know
August 27 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Two suicide bombers and gunmen have attacked crowds of Afghans at Kabul’s airport, transforming a scene of desperation into one o...
In rare move, Japan prepares to offer refuge to Afghans
August 27 ,2021
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By: Yuki Nakamura
A C-2 transporter leaves the Air Self-Defense Force's Iruma Air Base on Aug. 23 to evacuate Japanese nationals and Afghan staffers fr...
Turkey likely to maintain footprint at Kabul airport
August 26 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Turkey could remain in Afghanistan to provide technical support to the Taliban in operating Hamid Karzai International Airport in the c...
President Xi, Putin engage on Afghanistan
August 26 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Chinese and Russian leaders discussed Afghanistan on Wednesday, Chinese state media said, but did not echo the G7’s call for the...
Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation
August 26 ,2021
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By: Jonathan & Nancy
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the Unit...
Biden: Afghanistan evacuations would always have been ‘har...
August 26 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The evacuation of thousands of Americans and their Afghan allies from Kabul would have been “hard and painful no matter when it s...
Plan for Texas to host Afghan evacuees gets bipartisan sup...
August 26 ,2021
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By: Trisha Garcia
Cars wait to enter Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. Photograph: Juan Carlos LLorca/AP
There was bipartisan support in Texas this week...
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