Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will travel to Kabul Thursday in what will be his first visit to Afghanistan since August 2005. His visit can be expected to deliver “a lot of tangibles”, a government source said, without elaborating. He will likely tell Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai that India’s assistance to Afghanistan’s reconstruction and development was not contingent on presence and absence of foreign troops, and that India was in it for the long haul.

India has reminded the US, flush from its success in liquidating Osama bin Laden, that the war on terror cannot end without the elimination of terrorist safe havens inside Pakistan.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s disengagement-is-not-an-option line came under increased strain on Tuesday following Pakistan’s unhelpful attitude on the issue of bringing the 26/11 perpetrators to justice.

What happens in the Indian Ocean has lot of implications for Africa, Australia, Far East, Indian sub-continent and Gulf as well, and, therefore, India, Sri Lanka and Maldives are working closely to secure the ocean from terrorists and pirates, foreign minister Ahmed Naseem of
Maldives says in an interview on the occasion of his first visit to India after assuming the office

The issue of reported funnelling of Chinese arms to the insurgents operating in the northeastern states bordering China has aroused the interest and concern of a European parliamentary group.

Europe has a moral responsibility to keep its borders open for people fleeing Libya and some other African countries, United Nations under secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency reli

India has unilaterally decided to increase the period of stay for persons visiting Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to six months with multiple entries.

After Jaipur in 1987 and Delhi in 2005, cricket diplomacy between India and Pakistan is set to take off at Mohali next week.

Eleven Indian sailors taken hostage by Somali pirates were released Wednesday but there were many other Indians still held hostage on ships owned by foreign companies, including 79 aboard an Egyptian cargo vessel, MV Suez

Former US ambassador to India Robert Blackwill’s Plan B — de facto partition of Afghanistan — does not appear to have many takers in India as there are reservations about whether redrawing borders in Afghanistan will be consistent with Indian interests. If the mood on Raisina Hill is any indicator, partition is not a desirable end state