The Taliban closing on Afghan cities
The Taliban have been infringing on key cities around Afghanistan for quite a long time, taking steps to drive the country to its limit and drive the Biden administration into a no-win situation similar...
Category: Taliban
Afghanistan welcomes Biden government to review Taliban deal
The Biden administration said it will review a landmark U.S. deal with the Taliban, focusing on whether the insurgent group has reduced attacks in Afghanistan, in keeping with its side of the agreement. Washington...
Ravaging violence amidst flickers of hope ignited by Afghan-Taliban peace talks
Superpowers don’t lose wars, they lose interests. Well, that’s just an explanation cum excuse. The fact is, America has lost in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is easy to invade, difficult to conquer and impossible to rule...
India’s Counter-Terrorism challenge looms large in Afghan Quagmire
As the intra-Afghan negotiation goes on in Doha, the Afghan Government and the Taliban, in a historic first, are directly engaging with each other, in a bid to possibly end a four-decade-old war in...
Is Taliban trying to forge strategic ties with New Delhi?
After tweets attributed to a Taliban spokesperson claiming that friendship between the group and India is impossible unless the Kashmir issue is resolved began to be shared widely, the group officially denied having made...
The US-Taliban Deal & The Perpetual Afghan Conundrum: Options for India
On the 29 February 2020, the USA and Taliban signed the much-delayed deal in Doha, Qatar, named as ‘The Agreement to Bring Peace to Afghanistan’. It has since found much traction only in the...
Afghanistan is not America’s new Vietnam
Just after 72 hours of the truce between the Trump Administration and Taliban, the deal is at stake when the latter decided to carry out attacks against the Kabul based Ghani government backed by...
US – Taliban deal and its sum for India
“As a contiguous neighbour, India will continue to extend all support to the Government and people of Afghanistan in realizing their aspirations for a peaceful, democratic and prosperous future where the interest of all...
Is the US Taliban peace accord India’s Achilles Heel?
The signing of a peace accord between the Taliban and the United States doesn’t augur well for India but is highly beneficial for Pakistan Peace deal- Advantage Pakistan There seems to be an air...
Why troop withdrawal not easy? Analyzing truce in Afghanistan
On February 29, US’s and Taliban’s representatives signed a peace agreement that assures complete US troops withdrawal from Afganistan within 14 months. This agreement came after months of exertion from both sides. However, shelling...
