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Amid crisis, India announces new category of visa for Afghans

All Afghans, irrespective of their religion, can apply for the 'e-Emergency X-Misc Visa' online and the applications will be processed in New Delhi.

Afghanistan: Taliban announces 'amnesty', urges women to join government

he Taliban announced an amnesty across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government, trying to calm nerves across a nervous capital city that only the day before saw chaos at its airport

IAF plane carrying 120 Indians from Afghanistan lands at Jamnagar airbase

An Indian Air Force plane with 120 people onboard landed on Tuesday at Jamnagar in Gujarat from Kabul in Afghanistan, an official said

Afghan crisis: India bringing back its envoy, other officials from Kabul

The Indian ambassador to Afghanistan and around 120 of his staff members are being brought back to India on Tuesday from Kabul by a C-17 heavy-lift aircraft of the IAF

Biden skirts US failures in Afghan mayhem as Taliban gains control

Joe Biden ignored his own administration's failures when he tried to explain why civilians in Afghanistan's capital have been left stranded and in danger from the Taliban because of US departure

Afghanistan: Blinken talks to Qureshi, Pak calls for 'inclusive' settlement

Pakistan has emphasised the importance of an 'inclusive' political settlement in Afghanistan as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi

India introduces new electronic visa in view of situation in Afghanistan

India has reviewed visa provisions and introduced a new category of electronic visa called 'e-Emergency X-Misc Visa' with an aim to fast-track visa applications for entry into India

Taliban 2.0 & its discontents

India should not be rushed into a response

As Taliban return, 20 years of Afghan women's progress looks set to vanish

Even before the fall of Kabul on Sunday, the situation was rapidly deteriorating, exacerbated by the planned withdrawal of all foreign military personnel and declining international aid

Explaining the Taliban's lightning victory in Afghanistan

If anyone believed that the Taliban would halt at the gates of Kabul, they displayed a considerable ignorance of Afghan realpolitik

Joe Biden says he stands 'squarely' behind Afghanistan withdrawal

Biden defends Afghanistan decision, blames Afghan army's unwillingness to fight

Afghans have broken 'shackles of slavery': Pakistan PM Imran Khan

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday seemed to endorse the Taliban taking over Kabul by saying that Afghanistan has broken the "shackles of slavery" in the neighbouring war-torn country

Afghans throng Kabul's international airport to flee Taliban: Report

While there were no major reports of abuses, many stayed home and remained fearful as the insurgents' advance saw prisons emptied and armories looted

Taliban takeover: Afghan military jet shot down by Uzbek air defences

The jet crashed late on Sunday in Uzbekistan's southernmost Surxondaryo province adjacent to Afghanistan

Afghanistan crisis: China ready for 'friendly relations' with Taliban

Beijing has sought to maintain unofficial ties with the Taliban throughout the US' withdrawal from Afghanistan, which spurred an advance by the Islamist hardliners across the country

US-India flights to take longer after Afghanistan's airspace shuts

AI stops commercial flights; MEA waits for services to resume to begin repatriation

Afghanistan crisis: Embassy staff among 200 Indians stuck in Kabul

India on Monday said it was constantly monitoring the situation

We must all ensure Afghanistan can't ever again be a base for terrorism: US

The US told the UN Security Council that the international community should ensure that Afghanistan "cannot ever, ever again be a base for terrorism

ITBP to guard Indian diplomatic staff in Afghanistan till required

An armed contingent of paramilitary force ITBP is "actively" securing the diplomatic staff of the Indian embassy in Afghanistan's capital Kabul and will be there "till required", officials said

President Joe Biden to address nation on chaos in Afghanistan

President Joe Biden will return to the White House Monday to address the nation on the US evacuation from Afghanistan, a day after the Taliban took control of the country.