Why Taliban minister Amir Khan Muttaqi visited Deoband in UP: Seminary's history, and an Afghanistan link

Afghanistan's Taliban regime's foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Saturday visited the Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district as part of his six-day trip to India. Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi...

Post-Assad pragmatism: The new logic of Russia-Syria relations

In a highly consequential meeting for the future of Russia-Syria relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin met interim Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa in Moscow on 15 October. Both leaders' statements strongly suggest that the longstanding...

World News | True Peace with Beijing Cannot Be Built on Illusions: Taiwan President Rejects 'one China' Doctrine

Taipei [Taiwan], October 21 (ANI): Taiwan President William Lai stated that it would be unfeasible to attain cross-strait peace merely by endorsing the so-called "1992 consensus" and Beijing's "one China" doctrine, the Taipei Times reported. Lai...

Top news of the day: MEA denies involvement in Afghan FM Muttaqi’s presser that excluded women journalists; medical student from Odisha gang-raped in West Bengal, and more

Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, during a press conference, in New Delhi, on October 11, 2025 | Photo Credit: ANI MEA denies involvement in Afghan FM Muttaqi’s presser that excluded women journalists The Ministry of External...

World News | Defence, Trade, Critical Minerals and Technology Discussed During Sergio Gor's Meeting in Delhi Today

New Delhi [India], October 11 (ANI): US Ambassador-designate to India, Sergio Gor, on Saturday held a series of high-level meetings in the national capital, engaging with senior Indian officials to enhance bilateral cooperation in the areas of...

India upgrades ties with Afghanistan’s Taleban, will reopen embassy in Kabul

NEW DELHI: India on Friday upgraded ties with Afghanistan’s Taleban administration, giving a boost to the diplomatically isolated group, by announcing it would reopen its embassy in Kabul that was shut after the Taleban seized power in 2021. The...

Seminary’s lasting influence: 67 years on, Afghan leadership revisits Deoband

When Afghanistan’s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi arrived at Darul Uloom Deoband on Saturday, it marked the revival of a historical bond stretching back more than a century. The visit carried deep symbolic and spiritual meaning, as the last...

Ranked: America’s Most Common Drugs by Medicare Spending

Ranked: Countries With the Most Years in Poor Health See visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download it for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key...

Jaishankar-Taliban FM meet: India to upgrade technical mission in Kabul to embassy status, says EAM

By Chennaivision in National News, News October 11, 2025 India has restored full diplomatic relations with Afghanistan and will upgrade its Technical Mission in Kabul to an Embassy, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Friday morning, with...

India Upgrades Ties with Taliban, to Reopen Embassy in Kabul for First Time Since 2021

India on Friday upgraded ties with Afghanistan’s Taliban administration, giving a boost to the diplomatically isolated group, by announcing it would reopen its embassy in Kabul that was shut after the Taliban seized power in 2021. The Afghan...

Pakistan’s Broken Gamble In Afghanistan

On 24 December 1979, the erstwhile Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Moscow justified its decision under the Brezhnev Doctrine, claiming it had to save the socialist government in Kabul from collapse. Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin had seized...

Taliban FM Amir Khan Muttaqi visits Darul Uloom Deoband. What's the Islamic seminary's link with Afghanistan?

Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi is today at the Darul Uloom Deoband seminary, a prominent Islamic seminary located in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur. Muttaqi is on a six-day visit to India. The administration at the seminary said that...

Who Is Noor Wali Mehsud, the TTP Chief Allegedly Targeted in Kabul Strikes?

Explosions shook central Kabul on the night of October 9, close to Abdul Haq Square and several government buildings. The next morning Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry publicly blamed Pakistan for strikes in Kabul and in Paktika, calling them...

Etihad Airways to launch direct flights to Kabul

The Ministers’ Meeting of the World Free Zones Organization (WFZO), focusing on reassessing trade through digital solutions in a transforming world, was held as part of the 11th International Congress of the organization in Hainan, China, with the...

World News | Australia, US Have Been a Force for Good in World for More Than a Century; PM Albanbese

Washington DC [US], October 21 (ANI): Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday held talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to strengthen the mutual ties, and better future for the two countries and the Indo-Pacific. Albanese...

India to reopen Kabul embassy; Afghan Taliban to send diplomats to New Delhi

India on Friday upgraded ties with Afghanistan's Taliban administration, giving a boost to the diplomatically isolated group, by announcing it would reopen its embassy in Kabul that was shut after the Taliban seized power in 2021. The Afghan...

Afghanistan’s Eminent Persian Literature Scholar Dr. Mohammad Younus Tughyan Sakaei Dies in California

Afghanistan’s distinguished Persian literature scholar and former Kabul University professor, Dr. Mohammad Younus Tughyan Sakaei, has passed away in California, leaving a lasting academic legacy. Mohammad Younas Tughyan Sakayi, a former professor...

From War to Cancer: How Political Oppression Is Killing Afghanistan

Dear fellow citizens, friends of humanity, and members of the international community Afghanistan, a nation defined by resilience through decades of war, now faces an invisible but deadly enemy, cancer and preventable diseases. Each year, nearly...

Bombing Kabul

That Pakistan is now bombing Kabul is a strange turn of events. No one imagined it possible after the fall of Kabul only in 2021, when the Taliban took back power after having been ousted two decades before. The Taliban had been hand-in-glove with...

In ‘Dangerous’ Escalation, Pakistani Drone Strikes Kill Two Senior TTP Members In Kabul

Two senior members of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) extremist group have been killed in unprecedented Pakistani drone strikes in the Afghan capital, sources told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal, marking a major escalation of tensions between the two...