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The confusion in the INC leadership was wide open for everybody to watch in the non-stop coverage by the electronic and social media for the entire Sunday, the experienced captain has anticipated the move of Rahul & Priyanka to humiliate him by passing a resolution against Capt Amrinder singh’s leadership by a group of MLA’s in an emergency meeting called on Sunday without keeping him in the loop. The Congress veteran who has seen such situations in the past have cleverly submitted his resignation before the plan works out, not knowing how to play the googly from the seasoned politician, the entire congress leadership went into a series of discussions for the selection of the new CM candidate in hurry against their original plan to play the victory of Navjot Sidhu for couple of days and then bring in a consensus candidate. As we heard different names spelled out in the media from the so-called sources, Ambika Soni, Sunil Jhakar,...

After watching the events unfolding from Taliban taking over Kabul to Government formation by the Afghan war lords on the same day of the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, ironically, clock has gone back full circle to the same position as on 9th Sep 2001 with the Taliban Terrorists ruling Afghanistan and US Forces back in the barracks remembering the loss of nearly 3000 US citizens. Trying to understand this gigantic event in the middle east affecting entire Asia has made me to revisit the events of the past two decades after the 9/11 attack on the US soil, which was the only such event after the Pearl Harbor bombing. Since then, we have four US presidents taking the "Global war on Terror" narrative to the entire world, bombing the Tora Bora caves, killing many Afghan citizens, funding the governments in Kabul, all in the name of bringing democracy to Afghanistan, has yielded less than anticipated. Today we neither have a democratically elected government leading Afghanistan nor Ter...

Looking at the events unfolding in the last couple of weeks in the world, it is becoming clearer that the US agreement with Taliban has thrown the world into chaos and may take us back to the pre-industrial times of Khalifah regimes As we all hear US president, Joe Biden in his media briefs on Afghanistan, I wonder if his age is impacting his decision-making ability, I was trying to comprehend why he choose to evacuate the US armed forces and diplomatic staff in such a hurry without any plan B and led to the situation now with normal Afghan people rushing to the gates of the Hamid Karzai airport for survival. Blaming, Donald Trump for his decision to get into Doha agreement with Taliban is no excuse for the current crisis, Trump may have agreed for withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan, but the execution was entirely handled by the current political leadership, taking a step back, I could say, if Biden, has rejected or reversed some of Trump’s policies after he came to White...

  Afghanistan 2021 - Turning point in the history As the world is witnessing the Taliban taking over Afghanistan with no resistance either militarily or diplomatically, I sense a new beginning in the world order with US taking a back seat and China in the front acting as a sole “Super Power” without any announcement or declaration. Analyzing the events from 2019, when Trump was making a case for withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, many NATO allies were quickly bought into the idea, as most of the European allies were badly hit by economic downturn and Brexit becoming a reality, creating a situation which needed focus on their own economies. Taliban leaders who were either operating from Pakistan and interiors of Afghanistan sensing the reluctance of the US to continue, played it cards well and participated in discussions with various US and Arab leaders. With the change in the leadership in US, Joe Biden taking over the baton has shown haste in moving out of Afghanistan, h...