Weigh prudence over bravado: Why US–Pakistan campaign of retaking Bagram could trigger wider war

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury | October 9, 2025 8:15 PM

Dhaka: The United States looks poised to return to the very theatre it once abandoned: Bagram. What Washington calls a tactical correction could quickly become a strategic rupture for South Asia. A renewed US push - now reportedly coordinated with Pakistan's security establishment - to retake Bagram Air Base and re-establish a foothold in Afghanistan risks detonating a broader regional conflagration, reigniting refugee flows, empowering jihadist networks and drawing Pakistan deeper into an unwinnable security quagmire. The question is not whether the dust will settle - it is how many countries, communities and lives will be buried beneath it.

China welcomes resumption of direct flights with India

IANS | October 9, 2025 7:55 PM

Beijing, Oct 9 (IANS) China on Thursday welcomed the resumption of direct flights with India, calling it an "active move" that facilitates friendly exchanges between the two nations. Responding to a question during a regular media briefing in Beijing, a spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry stressed that the decision demonstrates how the two nations "faithfully act" on the important common understandings reached between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping during their recent meeting in Tianjin.