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Many Pak generals have cosied up to US presidents. So, this version isn’t surprising. Deals, like on cryptocurrency, cringe-worthy flattery, and Pak-Saudi-Türkiye-Egypt emerging quad have made Munir the go-between. But, any peace talk is good for India

The Trump administration has revoked Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Afghan nationals, citing improved conditions in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. This decision, impacting thousands who fled after the 2021 U.S. withdrawal, ends on July 12. Critics decry the move as reckless, pointing to ongoing humanitarian crises and persecution.

Any American mission in Afghanistan or presence of troops there would be only at the invitation of the Afghan government and a possible post-2014 presence would be aimed at training its forces and targeting the remnants of al-Qaida, the Pentagon has said.

Revelations by Pakistani- American David Headley, an LeT operative charged with conspiring in the Mumbai attacks, may have prompted Islamabad to finally go after the Afghan-Taliban, a noted US scholar on South Asia has said.

Contrary to the general impression, Hindus and Sikhs are original residents of Afghanistan, the Afghan ambassador to the US has said, as his embassy here held a memorial service for the members of the minority communities killed recently in a terrorist attack in Jalalabad.

Pakistan PM Gilani is said to have made an audacious pitch to Afghan president Karzai: Let's both ditch US and hitch our stars to China.

Describing the leadership of Gen David Petraues, the American Commander in Afghanistan, as reassuring, a top US expert on South Asia has said President Barack Obama needs to scrap his "arbitrary" deadline of July 2011 for the drawdown of troops from the war-torn country.

California State Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced a bill to ban caste discrimination. Equality Labs, which has been pushing the Bill along with California Coalition for Caste Equity and other activists, said the bill was passed unanimously to move it forward to the Senate, marking the first time the state has heard or advanced a bill that would make caste protections explicit.

Aisha, the 19-year-old Afghan woman whose nose was chopped off by her husband and who later went on to become the poster girl of Taliban oppression, has got a new nose after surgery in the US.

Members of the Sikh sangat (community) organized a condolence meeting for the victims of the Wisconsin gurdwara shootout in Andheri on Wednesday.

The US and Nato have promised to pay $4 billion a year until 2024 to finance Afghanistan's military and security forces, which are struggling to contain an advancing Taliban.

"Pakistan's leadership defines terrorism differently than the US government and thus is unlikely to act against all terrorist groups, as (Secretary of State) Mike Pompeo demanded," Haqqani, who is now the Director for South and Central Asia at Washington-based Hudson Institute, said.

Pakistan, nominally a US partner in the war, was the Afghan Taliban’s main patron and sees the Taliban’s victory as its own. But now what does it do with its prize?

One more youth from Kerala who had joined the Islamic State in Afghanistan is suspected to have been killed in the fight against US forces.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai will brief Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about recent developments in the ongoing reconciliation process in the country.

The Biden administration has decided to review the Doha deal the Trump administration had signed with the Taliban in February 2020. The deal provided for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, effectively drawing curtains to Washington's 18-year war in the country. The US has lost over 2,400 soldiers in Afghanistan since late 2001.