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Two days after India’s envoy to Qatar held talks with a top Taliban leader in Doha, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that New Delhi’s immediate focus is to ensure that Afghan soil is not used for terrorist activities directed against the country. India had used the meeting ...

In the first outreach of its kind, top Army and police brass interacted with over 80 families of militants active in the Valley Tuesday, urging them “guide their wards back into society”. Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, General Officer Commanding (GoC), 15 Corps, Lt Gen D ...

Chaos, uncertainty and anarchy are prevailing in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover. Twin blasts outside Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport last week killed nearly a hundred people, including at least 13 US service members. Several nations, including India, have completed rescue and evacuation operations. However, all this is not ...

On the eve of Pakistan’s Independence Day on August 14, Sayema, a famous radio jockey with a private radio station, tweeted Independence Day wishes to friends across the border. For the next few hours, her timeline was inundated with abuse, hate and bigotry of the most repulsive nature. Unfortunately, ...

Any sustainable solution in Afghanistan must include Pakistan, a senior Republican Senator has said. “We all must remember (that) Pakistan is a nuclear-armed nation, and there is a Pakistan version of the Taliban who wishes to topple the Pakistani government and military,” Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted, in an apparent ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the newly renovated Jallianwala Bagh complex and museum in Amritsar through video conference on Saturday. The complex is a memorial dedicated to those who were killed on April 13, 1919 on orders of Brigadier General Reginald Dyer. The Indian Express explains the events ...

Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday urged the party leadership to allow him freedom to take decisions and warned of a “befitting reply” if demand was not heard, news agency PTI reported. His comments came hours after Malvinder Singh Mali quit his position as advisor to Sidhu following ...

For Professor Sarbajeet Mukherjee, the journey to Kabul airport last week turned from the usual ten-minute drive into an eight-hour journey amid the extreme chaos of evacuation from the Afghan capital as the Taliban took over the country. In comparison, 33-year-old Tamal Bhattacharjee of Nimta in North Dum Dum ...

THE PUNJAB Congress leaders who called on state party in-charge Harish Rawat in Dehradun Wednesday claimed they had a “very fruitful” three-hour-long meeting with him and that they had informed him about the “quid pro quo of Amarinder Singh with the Akalis” and that the party would lose the ...

Top security officials of India, Brazil and South Africa on Wednesday said terrorism, particularly cross-border terror activity carried out through state sponsorship, continues to be the most potent threat to global peace and security, in a veiled reference to Pakistan. The issue figured at a virtual meeting of National ...