India Must Engage with the Taliban

The activation of diplomatic channels is likely to yield better results than a simmering hostility, recommends Ajai Shukla. IMAGE: Talibs and their armoured vehicle block a road near the......

'India should recognise the Taliban'

Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, the Taliban foreign minister when the Indian Airlines plane, IC-814, was hijacked from Kathmandu to Kandahar in December 1999, tells JyotiMalhotra that India should not look......

IA hijack victims wait for justice

Five years ago today, December 24, an Indian Airlines Airbus was hijacked to Kandahar in Afghanistan. After a week of national anguish and trauma, three of the most wanted terrorists in India's......

Mullah Omar alive: Newsweek

Mullah Omar, the elusive one-eyed head of Taliban, is not only alive but fully in-charge of his hard-pressed guerilla movement, a media report said here Monday. However, despite his efforts, the......