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......
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......
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, 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......
Having established its consulates in the Afghan cities of Herat in the west, Kandahar in the south and Jalalabad in the east, the Indian government is making renewed attempts to get hold of any......