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If taliban share power in government then it becomes Islamic, power brokers world over don't both with such trivia when so much is at stake. The real question is taliban willing to pay the cost demanded of them for that all enticing share in power.

There is if they can convince the taliban and the govt in Kabul to strike out a deal for a unity govt. The idea of Washington trying to talk to the taliban directly is to get them to agree to share power, accept a constitution which will, among others, accept some of taliban's fundamental tenets...

Trump wants a deal in Afghanistan that allows him to get America out without losing its face and he believes, as most influential Americans do, pakistan with its influence over taliban can deliver this to him. We can dissect his statement at our leisure and pretend his ramblings to be a...

It doesn't say anything about the fake quote attributed by Trump to Modi....

That statement only refers to the mediation part, nothing about the conversation that he claims he had with PM Modi. So we have to assume that even the state department endorses the yarn that Trump spun at our expense. This only means it's no longer Trump who is lying, it's America that is...

Has the state department come out with a clarification of Trump's purported conversation with PM Modi?.... How can any leader have a honest conversation with this dude now.

While I can understand why Indian IT sector might still be upbeat about the US, but for the rest it's a lost cause. As an export market, Trump will make it even more difficult to penetrate or do business. From what I'm reading, Trump and his acolytes are now heaping scorn on business that want...

American nationalism merely masqueraded as American liberalism against the soviets during the cold War, but it was always there. Why else would a liberal rag like the NYT would appear so hostile against India. The fact is she and her sister publications on both sides of the ideological divide...

This guy has decided to deliberately put us in a tight spot, by inventing a fake conversation. I can forgive his offer to mediate, which anyway is still one of their stated policy. But to claim that India wanted US to mediate on kashmir and bring the so called 'peace to the violence wracked...

The way I see it, US perceives India as a bulwark against its rising rival China. Much like how China perceives Pakistan vis-a-vis India. Our relevance to the US would be largely dependent on how far we are willing to toe US line on matters that are of strategic importance to the US. This was...

Government can play its role. How often have we seen our best and most seasoned diplomats are appointed ambassadors to the US and invariably these ambassadors end up as foreign secretaries in the EAM. It's no wonder then why Indian foreign policy has decisive US tilt. Send your best to these...

25 years ago nobody would have predicted the rise of American nationalism. America is now changing and we better pay attention. India's desire for closeness is not being reciprocated by the Trump administration and is unlikely to in the coming years. Unrequited love affairs are doomed to fail.

Well Americans think he is normal enough to be elected President (and probably for a second term) Normal or not, he is the one we will be dealing with and we better take him seriously, because this guy has already bullied India on both geopolitical and trade front. This is going to be the new...

We were, and will continue to be,foolish to hitch our bandwagon to this so called American pivot. Let's open up more diplomatic space by mending ties with Russia and China. Strengthen those with the EU. Seek new opportunities in SEA, Africa and Latin America. Our space will appear constricted if...

I'm not advocating turning the clock back on our ties, but at times biding your time is better than rushing into a faux friendship. This is not a one off incident, but it is a litany of similar incidents which should make us wary.

This administration with an infantile president at the helm, will be the worst. Modi govt will be ill advised to invest any strategic capital in this administration..

Overreaction would be when the EAM calls him a big fat liar in its official statement. Release the minutes of the meeting and ask him to explain why he made up this fake exchange of words with the PM.... Surely this is a diplomatic norm.

Well that is precisely the point.... Trump administration is not India friendly and will probably never be. We need to get out this antiquated notion that any statement against Pakistan by US administration makes it pro-india. We are not going to get anything tangible from the trump...

I'm certainly not calling for a break in ties, but it's time to reassess our engagement with the US. What have we received for this administration, end to trade concessions,new tariffs, threats of sanctions over the Iranian oil and now this. India used to be a country which could tell any great...

This guy has concocted a fictitious conversation with our Prime Minister, attributing a fallacious statement to him and we shouldn't antagonize him?.... A public dressing down will serve him very well. India needs to stay way from this Trump administration for its own well being.