A fghanistan has been the top headline in the Indian newspapers for five reasons.

First, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) opened negotiations with a regime it does not formally recogni s e, thereby blurring the distinction between the de facto and the de jure. We have resumed aid, albeit at a reduced scale, but the indication is clear—we are willing to examine our foreign relations from the prism of realpolitik.

Second, and even more significantly, the feisty women of the Indian press corps achieved what the government could not. T hey literally forced their way into the Taliban Press conference and asked some difficult questions. Show Full Article

Third was the visit of the Taliban delegation to Deoband, the seminary in Saharanpur, from which they claim to de

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