Tag: ISIL
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Afghan Betrayal: Interview with Ambassador B R Muthu Kumar – Part 3
In the 3rd and the last part of his first tell-all interview Ambassador Bharath Raj Muthu Kumar, India’s most experienced diplomat on Afghanistan, reveals how a famous ‘Bollywood baddie Ajit joke’ led…
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Afghan Betrayal: Interview with Ambassador B R Muthu Kumar – Part 2
In Part 2 of his first tell-all interview Ambassador Bharath Raj Muthu Kumar, India’s most experienced diplomat on Afghanistan, reveals how Kabul and Panjshir fell, the future of the resistance movement against…
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Afghan Betrayal: Interview with Ambassador B R Muthu Kumar – Part 1
In Part 1 of his first tell-all interview Ambassador Bharath Raj Muthu Kumar, India’s most experienced diplomat on Afghanistan, reveals what’s happening in the region, the old and new Taliban, and how…
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The Great Afghan Betrayal: A Palace Coup? – Part 4
The future trajectory of Pakistan’s complex manoeuvres in Afghanistan is moving towards building structured co-located terror units with active Pakistan military support. It is now a question of timing as to when…
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Saudi nightmare: What if ISIS plans for Eid in Mecca
Eid-ul Zuha is on October 6. Attribute it to their black humour, but Arab diplomats not in the Saudi camp, have been floating a story: Abu Bakr al Baghdadi may like to…
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Caliphate opposed to Shia apostasy and, eventually to Sunni monarchies
The expanding Shia-Sunni conflict in the Muslim world is exposing vast gaps in popular understanding of the schism. For example when Zaine El Abedine Ben Ali, the Tunisian strongman was ousted, people…