1. Bomb Blasts Hit Kabul

    Indian Decade

    A series of bomb blasts rocked Afghanistan today,claiming at least 63 lives and injuring scores more. The first suicide attack took [...]

  2. India and the Afghan Endgame

    Indian Decade

    Despite little or no prospect of stability in sight, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is now starting to pack [...]

  3. Pakistan’s India “Bogeyman”

    Indian Decade

    Pakistan appears terrified of an unfriendly government (or at least a pro-India one) assuming power in Afghanistan in 2014, when [...]

  4. Most Favoured India?

    Indian Decade

    Last week, Pakistani Foreign Minister Hira Rabbani Khar announced that her country was finally considering granting India Most Favoured Nation [...]

  5. Rabbani’s Death Blow to India

    Indian Decade

    When a suicide bomber killed former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani last week at his Kabul residence, he may also have [...]

  6. The Meaning of Rabbani’s Death

    Indian Decade

    Delivering a heavy blow to a vision of peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan, a Taliban suicide bomber has killed Burhanuddin [...]

  7. 20-Hour Kabul Siege Ends

    Indian Decade

    A siege in Kabul has finally ended after a 20-hour gun battle between insurgents and Afghan forces. The attack is [...]

  8. Afghan History Haunts NATO

    Indian Decade

    In an indication of the direction the tide is turning in Afghanistan, a place often dubbed the graveyard of empires, [...]

  9. Krishna’s Afghanistan Gaffe

    Indian Decade

    Gaffes and External Affairs Minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna seem to go hand in hand. Last year, he began reading the [...]

  10. Karzai’s Afghan Delusion

    Indian Decade

    Last month’s raid on Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel was the first major militant attack following US President Barack Obama’s announcement over [...]