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Economic crisis, starvation, chaos or stability and possible partnership with the USA? The road ahead for Afghanistan under the Taliban

K Bhattacharjee -
The Kabul airport attack was what so many feared would happen following the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.
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Who are the ISKP? The group that has claimed responsibility for Kabul airport attack, active in India too

OpIndia Staff -
Several Indian Muslims had travelled to Afghanistan to join the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP).
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From Iraq to Yemen to Libya to Kabul: Some of the toughest evacuations executed by the Modi government

Jinit Jain -
In the last few years, India has been one of the countries that has been remarkably successful in executing its evacuation plans and bringing its stranded citizens back home
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‘Whitewashing Islamic crimes is a full-time hobby of intellectuals’: Nitin Gupta ‘Rivaldo’ explains how blaming Brahmins for forced conversions is a fig leaf

OpIndia Staff -
“Intellectuals” in our country have been bent on covering up for the Islamic invaders and their forced conversions by blaming brahmins
News Reports

Congress accuses PM Modi of playing politics while talking to PV Sindhu’s South Korean coach: Here’s why he actually brought up Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff -
As told by PM Modi to PV Sindhu’s South Korean coach, there is a special relationship between Ayodhya and South Korea
News Reports

Sunanda Pushkar verdict completely exposes Shashi Tharoor and his affairs with a Pakistani journalist: Key takeaways from the judgement acquitting him

OpIndia Staff -
The Sunanda Pushkar verdict reveals how Shashi Tharoor had frequent fights with her over his extra marital affairs with Mehr Tarar
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Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai: One of the top 7 Taliban leaders who had once served as Afghan army soldier and trained at IMA before...

Jinit Jain -
One among the top seven leaders of the Taliban, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai was trained at the Indian Military Association in Dehradun under the Afghan-Indo defence cooperation in the 1970s
News Reports

99% people in Afghanistan favour making Sharia the law of the land, most favour corporal penalties: Pre-Taliban Pew Research shows

OpIndia Staff -
The survey by Pew Research Centre conducted in 2013 suggests that 79% of the Afghani Muslims considered it to be okay to award death penalty to those who quit Islam
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Colours of Jihad: Why does the Taliban use a white flag while ISIS uses a black one? Explained

Jinit Jain -
Let’s try to understand what the subtle distinction, if there indeed is any, between the flags of the Taliban and the ISIS mean.
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Fall of Saigon: When the US suffered a humiliating loss in Vietnam, and why Kabul is a reminder

OpIndia Staff -
The evacuation of US embassy personnel in Kabul echoes with the withdrawal of the United States from Vietnam's Saigon in 1975
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