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India and Taliban: Terms of engagement

The US-backed Afghan governments, on the other hand, have had close relations with India, which has been one of the largest development partners of Afghanistan, having invested over US$ 3 billion under the protective US presence since 2001 Sarosh Bana...

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Exit the US, enter Taliban?

Views and opinions from the top commentators in Indian media With no bases in neighboring countries and drone attacks more a revenge play than a counterterrorism measure – aside from the fact they often hit innocents as well as terrorists...

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Is India the big “loser” in Afghanistan?

Views and opinions from the top commentators in Indian media “Truly, it is incomprehensible why India shut its embassy in Kabul. A great opportunity was at hand to plough a new Afghan policy independent of American tutelage. The only plausible...

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Indigenisation – In Need of Policy Framework

Amit Cowshish India has been striving for indigenisation of defence production for close to three decades. To give impetus to the efforts, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had constituted a committee in the early 1990s under Prof APJ Abdul Kalam....

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Testing Times for Democracy in Nepal

Prime Minister Oli has been one of the most influential Chairman of the UML since July 2014. He has also been the most powerful prime minister in the post-constitution period Nihar R Nayak The President of Nepal, Bidya Devi Bhandari,...