New Delhi: On ‘Talking Point‘, Ambassador Gautam Mukhopadhaya, India’s Former Envoy to Afghanistan in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi.
Two years after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, Ambassador Mukhopadhaya points out,” Afghanistan is simply not in the news and the situation, both within and without seems to be largely one of stasis. Overall, what we see, is that the Taliban has really reasserted its hardline dogmatic interpretation of the Shariat.” The former India envoy though adds, “the swagger that (former ISI Chief) General Faiz Hameed exhibited in Kabul at the time of the takeover, that swagger has gone. Pakistan itself is in deep trouble, and is now facing blowback from precisely the kind of elements that they had harboured. A snake that they have reared is back to bite them.”
Watch this interview for more on Ambassador Mukhopadhaya’s assessment of where Afghanistan, the region, India and the world stand, two years after the Taliban’s return to power.
You can also watch our exclusive interviews on-the-ground in Kabul in August 2022:
The first ever and only in-person interview in Kabul of Maulvi Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan(IEA) with an Indian media platform, .
A rare, comprehensive, in-person interview in Kabul of Zabihullah Mujahid, Spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan(IEA).
An interview in Kabul with Khpolwak Sapai, the then Director of TOLOnews, Afghanistan’s first 24-hours news, current affairs, business, regional & world news television network.
And an interview in Kabul with Zahrah Nabi, an Afghan journalist and human rights activist.
