History Remembered As Afghanistan warmed up to India in the late 1940s, strains with Pakistan began to emerge Despatches from the Indian consulate in Kandahar point to tensions along the Durand Line.

On Thursday (May 15, 2025), Mr. Jaishankar, in his conversation with Mr. Muttaqi, had indicated that India will also deepen direct humanitarian support to Afghanistan, which has been under Taliban ...

Memorised from this map and rooted takes. Compare it with the actual shape of roman trade with India which is revealed by new map put out by Oxford University this year," said Mr Dalrymple.

The 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC 814 is back in the spotlight with the release of a new Netflix series, IC 814 - The Kandahar Hijack. The series, a dramatized version of the high ...

After this, the plane finally landed in the hijackers’ original destination, Taliban-controlled Afghanistan’s Kandahar airport. It was here that the hijackers negotiated with the then Atal Bihari ...

6:20 AM: The aircraft departed Dubai. 8:33 AM: It landed in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Till December 31, 1999 In Kandahar, the hijacking continued until December 31, 1999.

India was significantly involved in Afghanistan’s development before the Taliban came to power, and now has a Hobson’s choice to make in establishing contact with the fundamentalist Taliban or ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Before Sept. 11, 2001, this remote, sand-swept border city in southwestern Afghanistan was the seat of power of the Taliban, the militant Islamic regime headed by the ...

A suicide attack at the largest Shia mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar killed 32 people and injured at least 68 more, the government-owned Bakhtar News Agency said Friday.

In 2019, Afghanistan exported more than 90 percent of its products to only three countries – 45 percent to the UAE, followed by 24 percent to neighbouring Pakistan and 22 percent to India.

THE HIGHWAY nearly 500km long that links Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, to its second city, Kandahar, was once hailed as a sign of great progress in America’s campaign to pacify Afghanistan.

But he ultimately smashed that resistance, founded what became the modern city of Kandahar and pushed on to India — leaving behind the Seleucid Empire, which lasted for 250 years.