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Jyoti Malhotra is Editor, National & Strategic Affairs of The Print website in Delhi. She has been a journalist for 35 years and has worked for India's major news media, including the Indian Express, the Times of India and Star News. She has reported in both Hindi and English and consulted for several foreign media. She lives in New Delhi.

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Why Putin met Doval and how India navigated US to buy Russian oil

Jyoti Malhotra Feb 19, 2023

PM Modi’s significant reliance on NSA Ajit Doval and their shaping, especially, of India’s neighbourhood policy, seems to have tipped the balance in Russia’s mind. The meeting between National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Russian…

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Interview with Abdul Qahar Balkhi, spokesperson of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Emirate

Jyoti Malhotra Aug 19, 2022

https://youtu.be/_SsiTHt2Agc In an interview with ThePrint’s Senior Consulting Editor Jyoti Malhotra in Kabul, Afghanistan, the spokesman of the ministry of foreign affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Abdul Qahar Balkhi, spoke on…

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Move to India or trust Taliban? Kabul’s Sikhs in doubt, 2 months after IS attack on gurudwara

Jyoti Malhotra Aug 19, 2022

The 18 June attack has made many in the already-dwindling community want to leave Afghanistan. But the Taliban realises that treating Sikh-Hindu community well may help relations with India. Kabul: In a wealthy quarter of Kabul known as…

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Why Taliban wants India in Kabul and New Delhi is upscaling mission

Jyoti Malhotra Aug 19, 2022

The Taliban and India are joined at the hip by a single date – 15 August. The similarity ends there. The rise and fall of empires have neither diminished Kabul’s beauty, nor its brilliance. On the eve of the first anniversary of the Islamic…

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‘What’s there to celebrate,’ Afghans ask as Taliban mark one year in power in Kabul

Jyoti Malhotra Aug 19, 2022

As former Taliban fighters roamed the streets of Kabul to mark their victory over the old regime, several Kabulis stayed at home out of fear. Kabul: Taliban foot-soldiers were out on the streets in full strength in Kabul Monday to mark…

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Gave safe passage to India to leave, says Taliban foreign ministry spokesman, ‘welcome return’

Jyoti Malhotra Aug 19, 2022

In an exclusive interview with ThePrint in Kabul, Abdul Qahar Balkhi also spoke on issues of girls' education, the late al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri's presence there & Islamic State attacks. Kabul: The Taliban helped give safe…

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Has Taliban changed? In Kabul, a prized partridge for sale, ‘mahram’ escorts for women

Jyoti Malhotra Aug 13, 2022

As Taliban inches towards completing a year in power, exodus from Afghanistan continues. But more countries are coming to realise one can't ignore the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

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Nameless airport, IS attack, Delhi paan, vanilla ice cream — Kabul, a year after Taliban return

Jyoti Malhotra Aug 12, 2022

Shahr-e-Naw, literally, The New City, used to be a cauldron of noise & activity — streets choked with cars, pavements buzzing with people. But this Kabul seems to have retreated into itself.

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Padma bridge shows Bangladesh’s resolve. Why it carries the weight of Sheikh Hasina’s politics

Jyoti Malhotra Jun 16, 2022

Bangladesh has been transformed into an economic success story and Hasina is aware that victory at the 2023 polls lies through economic prosperity. Almost ten years to the day after the World Bank withdrew its financing of the bridge over…

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Why Bangladesh is absolutely quiet when it comes to anti-Prophet remarks by BJP leaders

Jyoti Malhotra Jun 14, 2022

As many as 20 countries and organisations have issued statements, but not Bangladesh. It has clearly understood at whose door the power lies in India.

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