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India has now aligned with the Taliban, Pakistan, China, and Russia in opposing the U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to regain control of the Bagram air base in Afghanistan. The announcement comes days ahead of the scheduled visit of Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to New Delhi, a historic first for a senior Taliban diplomat.

The relationship between the United States and India is being strained and the matter in the middle of the storm is oil. Washington displeased with the fact that the New Delhi is still purchasing crude oil with Russia, and the Trump administration has reacted with hefty trade sanctions. However, as verbal abuse goes on between the two democracies, a single global power, China, has decided to remain silent.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that a group of prominent American business leaders, including Lachlan Murdoch, Larry Ellison, and Michael Dell, would invest in a proposed deal for TikTok. The deal aims to keep the popular social media app running in the United States by transferring its American assets from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to U.S. ownership.

Pakistan’s latest attempt to brand the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and its armed wing, the Majeed Brigade, as terrorist organisations at the United Nations has run into a roadblock. The United States, the United Kingdom, and France have placed what is called a “technical hold” on the proposal, saying that the BLA cannot be linked directly to global terror networks like Al Qaeda or ISIS — a requirement under the UN’s sanctions committee rules.