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Afghan developments show why CAA was needed: Hardeep Puri

August 23, 2021

Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Sunday cited the evacuations from Afghanistan to support the Citizenship Amendment Act, which allows citizenship to persecuted non-Muslims in neighbouring Muslim majority nations who reached India before 2015. “Recent developments in our volatile neighbourhood and the way Sikhs and Hindus are going through a...

AFGHAN TALIBAN FORMS COMMISSION TO LOOK INTO TTP’S ANTI-PAK ACTS

August 23, 2021

ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan Taliban have set up a three-member commission to look into Islamabad’s complaints that the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), commonly known as the Pakistani Taliban, is using Afghan soil to plot cross-border terrorist attacks, a media report said. “TTP leaders are being warned (by the Afghan Taliban Commission) to...

SWEDISH PM STEFAN LOFVEN TO RESIGN IN NOVEMBER

August 23, 2021

STOCKHOLM: Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven of the Social Democrats party, on Sunday, announced that he will step down as party leader in November. A year ahead of Sweden’s next election, Lofven announced his resignation at his annual summer speech, held in Akersberga near Stockholm, reported a Swedish local daily....

AFGHAN SPECIAL CELL ESTABLISHED BY MEA RECEIVES 2,000 CALLS, 6,000 QUERIES; REPLIED 1,200 MAILS

August 23, 2021

NEW DELHI: The Afghan special cell established by India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) received more than 2000 calls in five days, it answered around 6000 queries over WhatsApp and have replied to over 1200 emails, sources informed. MEA has set up a special Afghanistan cell to coordinate repatriation and...

CHINA POSITIONING ITSELF AS INTERNATIONAL PARTNER TO TALIBAN IN TEMPTATION OF RARE EARTH MATERIALS IN AFGHANISTAN

August 23, 2021

China is clearly positioning itself to be a major international partner to the Taliban after the fall of Kabul as it is eyeing Afghanistan’s $1-2 trillion worth of rare Earth materials— most notably lithium. James Stavridis — 16th Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, wrote in Nikkei Asia said that China...

JOE BIDEN MEETS NATIONAL SECURITY TEAM TO DISCUSS AFGHAN SITUATION; TRUMP, POMPEO SLAM HIM FOR FAILURE

August 23, 2021

The White House, on Sunday informed that President Joe Biden has met his national security team to discuss the security situation in Afghanistan. The meeting also discussed counterterrorism operations, evacuation efforts, and intensive diplomatic efforts to finalise agreements with additional third-party country transit hubs. “This morning, the President met with...

Afghan envoy appreciates words of sympathy, support messages from India

August 23, 2021

After the Taliban takeover, Afghanistan Ambassador to India, Farid Mamundzay, on Sunday, appreciated the kind words of sympathy and support messages from all Indian friends and the diplomatic missions in New Delhi over the suffering of Afghans in the past few weeks. “I appreciate the kind words of sympathy and...

TALIBAN IDEOLOGY HAS NEITHER REFORMED NOR CHANGED: CENTRE OF POLITICAL AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS

August 23, 2021

Taliban ideology has neither reformed nor changed in any form, said Fabien Baussart, the President of Centre of Political and Foreign Affairs (CPFA), highlighting the recent incidents of targeted murders, assassinations and punishments meted out to women in Afghanistan. In an opinion piece in Times of Israel, Baussart writes Afghanistan...

2022 UP polls: Shah meets Nadda, Adityanath in Delhi

August 21, 2021

NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a meeting with BJP national president J.P. Nadda and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in New Delhi. The three-hour-long meet was held to discuss the 2022 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. The meeting was held at Amit Shah’s official residence in...

1921 MOPLAH REBELLION WAS MANIFESTATION OF TALIBANI MINDSET: RAM MADHAV

August 21, 2021

KOZHIKODE: Targeting Kerala’s Left government for allegedly trying to whitewash the 1921 Moplah rebellion by celebrating it as a “communist revolution”, Ram Madhav on Friday said that the incident was in a way the first manifestation of Talibani mindset in India. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the year-long ‘Mapilla...

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