A month after the dramatic fall of the old order in Kabul, what is evident in Pakistan is a mix of sentiment ranging from quiet satisfaction to heady triumphalism. Three factors underwrite these views...

Violent Islamist movements, as current events in Afghanistan demonstrate, have had some success in Muslim countries that were invaded by the United States of America. But they have failed everywhere e...

With India emptying out its embassy in Kabul and flying its official personnel back home in the aftermath of the Taliban takeover of the Afghan capital, the parallels with 1996 are impossible to ignor...

Al Qaida’s second-highest leader, accused of being one of the masterminds of the deadly 1998 attacks on American embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran three months ago, intelligence officials ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan made international headlines last week but for all the wrong reasons. Khan made a surprise appearance in the National Assembly on Thursday to defend his government’s ov...

Sir — Shabana Azmi recently shared a photograph of a signboard at the Chennai International Airport. The signage read, “Eating carpet is strictly prohibited”. This led to much mirth on Twitter. ...

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday accused “some parties” of offering biryani to terrorists while the Narendra Modi government fed them bullets, and termed a Congress candidate...

A Bangladeshi immigrant, who allegedly heaped praise on the Islamic State (ISIS) and Osama bin Laden, was charged on Friday after he was accused of plotting a grenade attack on the bustling tourist-cl...

A weighty fraction of the world (15 out of 195 countries) got together and finally agreed to call a man, who has been running worldwide terror operations since the early 1990s, a global terrorist. And...

“Instead of making Pakistan a scapegoat for their failures, the US should do a serious assessment of why, despite 140000 Nato troops plus 250,000 Afghan troops & reportedly $1 trillion spent on ...