Swaraj, Karzai agree to intensify security, defence ties

India on Wednesday assured all possible help to the Afghan people to realise their vision of a strong, independent and prosperous Afghanistan as the two countries agreed to intensify cooperation in......

Hamid Karzai in Islamabad to mend fences

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Pakistan on a day-long visit to mend frayed ties with Pakistan and to seek the release of high-profile Taliban prisoners, including Mullah Barader, to give a......

The shoddy way India looks at Afghanistan

New Delhi has consigned to itself the role of the underdog, says Ajai Shukla The self-congratulatory euphoria that surrounded India’s aid-driven Afghanistan policy for years after the......

New Delhi's strategic dissonance in post-2014 Afghanistan

India's post 2014 Afghanistan policy appears to be glued to the best-case scenarios of a successful democratic transition. New Delhi hopes that it would remain ‘business as usual’ and......

Rashid Khan tense as family stuck in Afghanistan: KP

'We had a long chat here on the boundary talking about it and he's worried: he can't get his family out of Afghanistan and there's a lot of things happening for him.' IMAGE: Afghanistan's Rashid......