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Bagram Ambition

The debate over the Bagram Airbase has once again placed Afghanistan at the centre of global strategic calculations. U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed demand to regain control of the base, which ...
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Op Sindoor aftermath: A dangerous drift

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Mr. Bakshi who appeared on the U.S. public television on Friday said that by contrast a few thousand European and Americans, though denied freedom of movement, were well looked after.
"At some point, it will have to release this pressure—either violently or gently," says volcanologist Pablo González.