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Neighborhood News Digest - 25 March 2025

Afghanistan

US Removes Two Haqqani Network Members from Wanted List, Says AP-The Khaama Press

The Taliban has claimed that, in addition to Sirajuddin Haqqani, the group’s interior minister, two other members of the Haqqani n....

March 25, 2025 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Pakistan , China , economy , Maldives , Myanmar , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Bangladesh , Thailand , UK , WHO , Haqqani network , junta , India-Sri Lanka , Airstrikes , IMF bailout deal , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) , Himmiya lagoon , Genocide Day

“Victory Day” Parade: One year of a Pyrrhic Victory for the Taliban

Soumya Awasthi Article

The impact of the Taliban’s one-year rule in Afghanistan differs across regions and countries. The impression on South Asia was more distinct than on any other region. In South Asia, Pakistan and Afghanistan bore the burden of the Taliban’s takeo....

August 18, 2022 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Article , Pakistan , Afghanistan , Kabul , Terrorism , South Asia , Southeast Asia , ISI , ISKP , Haqqani network , TTP , Uzbek , Victory Parade , One Year of Taliban , Taliban 2.0 , Akhundzada , Baradar , Kandahar , Quetta Shura , Tajik , Zabiullah

Do Not Whitewash the Taliban

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

The dastardly twin terror attacks at Kabul airport and a nearby hotel killed more than 160 people, including 13 US soldiers. The attack, claimed by Islamic State Khorassan (ISK) was a grim reminder of the dystopian future that awaits the country. US ....

August 29, 2021 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Commentary , US , Taliban , Al Qaeda , ISI , Haqqani network

Taliban Faultlines: Pakistan’s ISI Elevates Haqqani Network Front And Centre

Article

NEW DELHI: The Taliban may have forced the U.S. and NATO forces to withdraw from Afghanistan but there is no guarantee that it will have a free run post-September, long time watchers of the country say. Pakistan’s ISI, suspicious of the Taliban’s....

May 31, 2021 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Article , US , Kabul , Taliban , NATO , Haqqani network , Ghazni , Oruzgan

Fountainhead of Jihad:The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012; Vahid Brown and Don Rassler; Hachette India; PP 320; Price Rs 450

Amb Prabhat P Shukla

Fountainhead of Jihad is one among the more important books on the nature of Jihad and Islamic extremism in recent times. There have been several in this genre, as interest quickens around the world on this subject. In the South Asian context, it is ....

August 07, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , Book Reviews , Jihad , Islamic extremism , Manba al-Jihad , Tehreek-e-Taliban , Haqqani network