Afghanistan
First Afghan shipment via India-built Chabahar port in Iran arrives in Mumbai
“With the opening of the Chabahar route, Afghanistan’s exports will increase from the current US$ 1 billion to US$ 2 billion next year” Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan had said.
How Shanghai Cooperation Organization can get India and Pakistan to talk to each other
SCO should identify and assess the presence of terrorist groups and their support infrastructure in the SCO region. Then it should map out a results-oriented counter-terrorism plan of action for adoption by the SCO, says M.Ashraf Haidari.
Pakistan says it has shot down two Indian aircraft, captured a pilot but India says intruders were driven back
India-Pakistan step up air war, with conflicting claims being made. US calls for restraint.
India should shed its reserve about engaging the Taliban
New Delhi has been seeking an “Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-controlled” peace process and settlement. But India has to participate in theprocess to shape it to its needs.
Issues in the bid for peace in Afghanistan
Then there is an economic angle which is hardly talked about in relation to the situation in Afghanistan, but it very important from the point of view of the future.
US Special Envoy says Taliban has agreed to a “draft framework” for Afghan solution
US Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad told the Afghan media that US and the insurgents had “agreed in principle on a couple of very important issues”, and said that Afghans must “seize the opportunity,”
Fed up of war, Afghans march for peace
“Afghans want an absolute ceasefire as soon as possible. The government had agreed a one-year ceasefire and the Taliban must accept their demand,” Bismillah Watandost, a member of the People for Peace Movement, told AFP.
India-Iran-Afghanistan pact on Chabahar port to be implemented on February 26
India, Iran and Afghanistan signed a trilateral transit agreement in Tehran in May 2016, which allows them to connect each other through Chabahar Port, bypassing Pakistan.
Indian experts fear US withdrawal from Afghanistan will lead to a Taliban-Pakistan take over
Harsh Pant of the Observer Research Foundation has warned that a strengthened Taliban in Afghanistan could subsequently spread its influence to neighboring Pakistan and Kashmir, which would be bad news for India.
The Taliban change as state power comes within grasp
Since 2003, the Taliban of Afghanistan, have been seeing themselves not just as an insurgent group destroying everything and every institution that they consider “un-Islamic”, but also as an administrative group, delivering social, economic and other State-like services to people in areas under their control, even if only partially.
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