Posts

Showing posts with the label India Afghanistan
Image
Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan and its impact on the globe. ~Preet The World Bank has authorised a plan to utilise USD 1 billion from a frozen Afghanistan trust fund for education, agriculture, health, and family programmes in order to alleviate the country's deteriorating humanitarian and economic difficulties.  The goal is to protect the vulnerable, aid in the preservation of human capital and critical economic and social institutions, and to limit the need for future humanitarian assistance. Previously, India hosted the Delhi Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan. An unstable Afghanistan has far-reaching consequences not only for the region, but also for the whole world. Afghanistan has been chaotic and unsafe for decades, but the Taliban's takeover of power in August 2021 has left the whole area on the verge of collapse.  Afghanistan's current position is unsettlingly similar to the geopolitical landscape of the late 1990s.  The Taliban took control in 1996, but