India, May 17 -- To unlock Afghanistan's mineral vaults and regain access to strategic sites like the Bagram Airbase, the US needs Pakistan's logistical cooperation and tacit support. But this cooperation comes at a cost: the price may be Indian silence.

GOA: There's a new chessboard unfolding in South Asia, and the moves are being orchestrated not in Delhi or Islamabad, but in Washington's backrooms. The United States, driven by its hunger for rare earth minerals and influence in an increasingly multipolar world, appears to be entering a transactional phase of diplomacy-where silence is the new currency and strategic ambiguity its preferred tool. A grand deal appears to be quietly fermenting behind closed doors-one that may expose the c...