NEW DELHI (Reuters) -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 ...

On 20 August 2025, Kabul hosted the sixth China–Afghanistan–Pakistan foreign ministers’ dialogue, the first since the Taliban’s 2021 takeover. Chinese, Pakistani and Afghan leaders pledged deeper ...

Calls by China for Pakistan and Afghanistan to abide by their ceasefire agreement reflect China’s concerns about its own interests in South Asia. With the flagship China–Pakistan Economic Corridor and ...

Chinese analysts are increasingly framing Pakistan’s ongoing confrontation with Afghanistan not merely as a bilateral conflict but as part of a wider regional dynamic involving India. As one Chinese ...

NEW DELHI, Nov 4 (Reuters) - India is ramping up aid to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and branding itself as the region's "first responder" after Monday's deadly earthquake, seeking to counter China's ...

Beijing is signaling geoeconomic control over a chokepoint industry by deciding to resume the supply of rare-earth magnets to India on the condition of a written “no-diversion” pledge. This is more ...

TP Sreenivasan and Declan Walsh in conversation at MBIFL 2026 At Circle of Fire: India and Her Neighbours, a session at the ...

The most worrisome flash point in South Asia today lies not between the nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan but to the west, along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. A simmering conflict ...