Yamin Zakaria: Call it political analysis or conspiracy theory, commercial interests often underpins foreign policy. Accordingly, many alleged that the US supported the Taliban regime through its ally Pakistan because it wanted to build a Gas pipeline in the 1990s along with the other strategic interests. The pipeline would run from the Central Asian countries through
Khaama Press December 18, 2015 The construction work of the new Afghan parliament building is expected to be fully completed by the end of this month, it has been reported. Started in 2009 by India’s premier government-owned construction agency Central Public Works Department (CPWD), the project is in its final stage of completion. According to
Quartz: Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj’s arrival in Islamabad last week to deliberate on Afghanistan at the Heart of Asia Conference was both surreal and spectacular. After all, why would Pakistan want to discuss a taboo subject with India at a time when the two rivals are not on talking terms? Click here to read
VOA News Ayaz Gul December 13, 2015 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—Construction of a much-anticipated $10-billion pipeline transporting natural gas from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India began Sunday, 25 years after the inception of the project. The so-called Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) project aims to export up to 33 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas per year through
Khaama Press December 10, 2015 A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) and Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority on Thursday to help Afghanistan cricket with a home ground in India. According to the local media reports, the MoU was signed
Tolo News: Afghan and Indian officials on Tuesday celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the establishment of a provisional government of India, which was a government-in-exile, in Kabul. The Provisional Government of India was established in Afghanistan on December 1, 1915 by Indian nationalists, many of them Muslims, during World War I. Click here to read
Khaama Press November 20, 2015 The Indian-supplied Mi-25 gunship helicopters will kick-off operations with the Afghan Air Force within the next two months, it has been reported. The delivery of the Russian-made gunships comes amid crucial need of close air support to the Afghan national security forces who are fighting the Taliban militants on their own
The Hindu: Afghanistan on Thursday pressed for operationalising the four-year-old India-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Pact (SPA), in which defence cooperation is a major component. Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekamat Karzai said a meeting between the National Security Advisors of the two countries had discussed the ways to enhance defence cooperation, but refused to elaborate details of
The Hindu: Friendship between the people of India and Afghanistan dates back to centuries. It has only grown deeper in the modern era. Kabuliwala — a timeless work of Rabindranath Tagore and a classic reading in Indian schools — sums up the ever growing relationship between Indians and Afghans. Kabuliwala correctly characterises the friendship, loyalty,
Khaama Press | November 15, 2015 India is building three healthcare centers in three remote districts of northeastern Badakhshan province. Head of the province’s public health directorate says the healthcare centers would be built in Darayem, Shahr-e-Buzorg and Arghanchkhwa districts. Noor Mohammad has told Radio Killid that one of the three healthcare centers going to