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The deadly clashes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Durand Line, sparked by Pakistan's airstrikes targeting TTP militants, have escalated tensions. Both sides reported heavy casualties, and the collective death toll is over 250.
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Taliban visit to India upsets Pakistan, signals New Delhi's changing Afghan posture
By bno Chennai Office India’s hosting of the Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi marked a pivotal moment in New Delhi’s pragmatic realignment of its Afghan policy, reflecting a calculated effort to secure national interests amid shifting regional dynamics and ongoing security challenges.
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Taliban backs India’s sovereignty over Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan calls it 'injustice to history'
New Delhi noted that the statement reflects the geographic reality that India and Afghanistan share contiguous borders, including the 106-km border with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
India is hosting the Taliban minister during a high profile but controversial visit as it seeks to upgrade its diplomatic ties with Afghanistan’s hardline Islamist regime
India’s engagement with the Taliban marks a bold yet perilous shift, a high-stakes gamble between pragmatism and principle. As New Delhi balances strategy with ethics, this historic outreach could redefine South Asia’s power dynamics or expose India to unpredictable risks.
What began as airstrikes by Pakistan on Afghan territory has spiralled into a full-blown military clash, exposing the collapse of Islamabad’s once-vaunted control over the Taliban.
Amir Khan Muttaqi, Foreign Minister of the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan, is in India for a seven-day visit. As part of his itinerary, Muttaqi will visit the historic Darul Uloom Deoband in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday.
The MEA has said it had “no involvement” in the Afghanistan’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, move to bar women journalists from his press conference in New Delhi.
Several political leaders also expressed dismay over exclusion of women journalists from the press conference held by Taliban foreign minister Amir Muttaqi.
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