Manish Rai

The author is a columnist for the Middle-East and Af-Pak region and Editor of geopolitical news agency ViewsAround. He can be reached at manishraiva@gmail.com.

Military Operations Won’t Solve Baloch Issue

Last month the Baloch Liberation Tigers (BLT) abducted six football players who BLT said were informants of ISI. In response, a large-scale military operation...

ISIS is Still the Most Imminent Threat in the Region: Peshmerga

Major General Usman Mohammad Mustafa is the Director General of Media and Awareness in the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs effectively serving as the official...

India-Egyptian Relations Are Now Strategic: Indian Envoy

Ambassador Ajit Gupte a senior diplomat from Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is currently serving as the Indian Ambassador to Egypt. We are presently witnessing...

Why Anti-Taliban Resistance Should be Supported

Recently the Taliban have ordered an indefinite ban on university education for the country’s women, the ministry of higher education said in a letter...

Pakistani Taliban is a Volcano Waiting to Erupt

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in June this year declared an indefinite ceasefire to facilitate peace talks being brokered by the Afghan Taliban. But there have...

Taliban: A Divided House

The Taliban have announced a new interim government of their so-called "Islamic Emirate" in Afghanistan, more than three weeks after taking control of the...

Core Concepts of Taliban’s Islamic Emirate Has Not Changed

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was the official name of the Taliban regime before being deposed by the US-led NATO forces in 2001. The Taliban...

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