Afghanistan: Russia draws red lines for US
October 15, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov (left) escorted by Acting Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi (R) and Deputy Prime Ministe...
Afghanistan: Pakistani diplomacy is on a roll
September 27, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Acting Prime Minister of Taliban Interim Government Mohammad Hasan Akhund and senior ministers met the special envoys of Russia, Ch...
Iran’s SCO membership is a big deal
September 22, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi (R) participated in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Dushanbe on Sept 16-17, 2021
Like in a W...
SCO won’t be subaltern to QUAD
September 20, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Family photo of the 20th summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Dushanbe, September 17, 2021
As expected, the situation i...
Afghanistan: India’s ‘over-the-horizon’ dilemma
September 16, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Pentagon claimed its “righteous strike” by a Reaper drone on Aug. 28 in Kabul killed an ISIS terrorist who turned out to be an aid worke...
Afghanistan: Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
September 15, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
The title of an unputdownable 1980 classic by Peter Hopkirk comes to mind even as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Collective Security...
Afghanistan: Enter regional states
September 13, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Afghan tribal leaders and religious scholars and youth leaders from the central provinces (Hazarajat) met former president Hamid Karzai regarding...
Biden Doctrine abates China tensions
September 13, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
US President Joe Biden speaking about the end of the war in Afghanistan, White House, Washington, August 31, 2021
A 90-minute phone conversation...
The fall of Panjshir
September 8, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Taliban patrol after they took over Panjshir Valley, Sept 6, 2021
Panjshir has fallen to the Taliban with a bang — and a whimper. The bang...
Afghanistan: Panjshir revolt becomes footnote
September 6, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Afghanistan: Panjshir revolt becomes footnote
At the daily foreign ministry briefing in Beijing on Friday, Russian correspondent of Sputnik a...
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 spokesperson Maria Z...
Biden gives green signal to US-China thaw
September 3, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
US climate envoy & former secretary of state John Kerry (L) and Chinese Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (File photo)
The visit to Tian...
Quad meets the “Saigon moment”
August 27, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
US Vice-President Kamala Harris (L) being presented with a spray of orchids named after her, as Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (R) looks o...
Taliban neutralises the Afghan warlords
August 13, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani visited the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-i-Sharif besieged by the Taliban, August 11, 2021
The Afghan Preside...
Don’t waste the opportunity at UN SC
August 11, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
United Nations Security Council in session, New York (File photo)
India’s thirty-day tenure through August as the president of the UN Secur...
Spectre of Syria haunts Afghanistan
August 9, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Fencing of Durand Line is almost complete. Pakistani troops guarding the border with Afghanistan in Khyber
The Moscow daily Vedomosti with l...
A new dawn breaks in Tehran
August 6, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) during the inauguration ceremony for Ebrahim Raisi (R) as president, Tehran, August 3, 2021...
JCPOA: A bridge too far?
August 3, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Ebrahim Raisi will be sworn in as Iran’s next president on August 5, marking a defining moment in the situation around the nuclear issue ...
Blinken’s single-point agenda in Delhi – China
August 2, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (R) welcomes the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, New Delhi, July 28, 2021.
The overnight vi...
Fizz is gone from Biden-Putin summit
June 22, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
The morning after a Russian-American summit is most critical to know whether the previous day’s bonhomie was real, surreal or unreal. Surve...
Biden has a worthy interlocutor in Raisi
June 21, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani (L) meets the media with President-elect Ebrahim Raisi (R) in Tehran, June 19, 2021
This may seem a paradox...
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