The recent visit of President Ghani to Pakistan was a message of regional reconciliation, but the insurgents launched a terrorist attack targeting one of the military units of the Ministry of Defense. This very likely was planned in Pakistan, and the implication is that Pakistan has not given up its vicious game
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If President Trump understood India’s geopolitical context or valued the long-term relationship between India and the U.S., he would rely less on Twitter and more on tact.
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Excerpts from an exclusive interview given by a Taliban source to a local Afghan media group after the last round of Doha talks
Afghan women have “paid a high price” during their country’s nearly four decades of conflict, the United Nations deputy chief said on Friday, addressing the Security Council a day after Kabul had been hit with a fresh round of “horrific” bomb attacks.
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Face to face with Tahir Qadiry, Charge d’Affaires at the Embassy of Afghanistan in New Delhi.
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The UN deputy chief issued an impassioned plea on Sunday for Afghans to reconcile with the past and put “women at the centre” of all efforts to forge a durable peace, and a truly inclusive political process where women’s voices are truly heard.
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While Trump has been posting tweets for his electorate, the U.S.-led international coalition carried out another air raid on the residential area in Idlib province, apparently against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) units.
The Taliban believes that such attacks will provide an opportunity for it to bargain from a position of greater strength and derive maximum concessions from the talks.
The Russian ambassador to Kabul Alexander Mantetskey, said: “We will never endeavor to finance and equip the armed opposition groups who are fighting against Afghanistan government and its security forces because equipping and supporting this group has no benefit.
Though the overall history of Indo-Iranian relationship is not dull and unsavoury yet there have been intermittent periods of closeness as well as of distancing from each other temporarily.