Optimism Over Peace Pledge Fades as Afghans Accuse Islamabad of Continuing to Press for Cross-Border Influence. KABUL: Afghanistan’s relations with Pakistan are growing increasingly strained, Afghan officials say, even as President Hamid Karzai has patched up, for now, his fraying ties with the U.S...
Yesterday, Afghan and Coalition forces captured a commander from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan during yet another operation in the Kunduz district of Kunduz province. The International Security Assistance Force reported that the captured leader "is alleged to lead a cell of insurgent fighters r...
Rights activists say children are imprisoned for “moral crimes” while the perpetrators escape prosecution. Afghanistan:The 15-year-old refused to give his name, his eyes cast down as he sat in an empty room in the children‘s correction center in Kabul. Slowly, he began to open up and tell his sto...
CANBERRA : Australia will withdraw most troops from Afghanistan's south at the end of this year and shut down a major base for NATO-led forces, handing security to Afghan soldiers and police, Defense Minister Stephen Smith said on Tuesday. Western and Afghan commanders, Smith said, had agreed that...
KABUL: After months of bargaining in Kabul and Washington D.C., the U.S. military finally handed over the control of Bagram prison to Afghan administration on Monday, putting an end to a source of tension between the allies in the war on terror. According to an Afghan observer, the transfer of the...
Huge numbers of weapons and vehicles and tense relations with nearby countries make task more daunting than Iraq pullout Bagram airbase - Fighting wars is expensive, but so is winding them down. As the US prepares to ship most of its weapons, vehicles and other equipment home after more than a deca...
More than 200 years after the arrival of steam locomotives changed the world of transport forever, the "iron horse" has finally made it to Afghanistan. Afghanistan is in the early stages of constructing a cross-country rail network intended to spur economic development and boost trade. The idea ...
On Iraq, Journalists Didn't Fail. They Just Didn’t Succeed.To make that case, though, he has to redefine "failure" so far down that it's hardly possible to avoid failing."Thousands of news stories and columns published before the war described and debated the administration’s plans and statements, a...
- I am not sure exactly when the death of television news took place. The descent was gradual—a slide into the tawdry, the trivial and the inane, into the charade on cable news channels such as Fox and MSNBC in which hosts hold up corporate political puppets to laud or ridicule, and treat celebrity...
KABUL: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry embarked on talks Monday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai amid concerns Karzai may be jeopardizing progress in the war against extremism with his anti-American rhetoric. The session came shortly after the U.S. military ceded control of its last detention f...
The country sits atop oil, gas and mineral deposits that could be worth a trillion dollars. But building a commercial mining industry will be a rocky road. TAGHAR, Afghanistan: In a rugged valley outside Kabul, where mud-walled villages blend into bare scrubland, a team of international mining expe...
The neighboring countries of Afghanistan, specifically Iran and Pakistan with the inspiration of MI6 are responsible for the current crisis in Afghanistan and thoroughly involved in creating barriers for the creation of a strong political leadership in the country. Iran has made major investments ...
KUWAIT: With the pace of NATO’s drawdown from Afghanistan accelerating, the international coalition is faced with the unprecedented task of removing tens of thousands of tons of equipment and vehicles from a country still very much at war. For the U.S. military, moving 35,000 vehicles and 95,000 s...
President Hamid Karzai ushered in the new school year with the ringing of the first bell and a speech calling on the Taliban to abandon the practice of targeting schools for political ends. The forced closure and arson of schools is hostility against the children of Afghanistan without any Islamic...
(Although the numbers seem a little exaggerated and the entire article a little alarmist, the nefarious plot by these outside missionaries to create a ruling class of elitist, well-educated and wealthy Christians who may one day come to rule Bangladesh, is a very real and probable threat - ed)Weste...
The Turkish conquest of the subcontinent was a long, drawn-out process covering several centuries. It began in Afghanistan with the military forays of Mahmud of Ghazni in 1001. By the early thirteenth century, Bengal fell to Turkish armies. The last major Hindu Sena ruler was expelled from his capit...
Bangladesh is an interesting puzzle. It is representative of the contemporary postmodern condition when nothing is clear-cut. It is at once both highly developed as well as underdeveloped. Bangladesh is a country that is economically backward and politically quite advanced. Many political and social...
(26th March: National Day) Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma (Myanmar) to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south. The capital (and largest city) is Dhaka, which is the hub of all cultural,...
BAZARAK, Afghanistan: If you plan to attend a buzkashi match, make sure you’re feeling limber. As dangerous as the ancient game is for participants, it can be equally perilous for fans when several tons of man and beast hurtle, hooves flailing, into the stands. This happens with regularity. Buzk...
As international forces leave Afghanistan, a flood of disputes over water resources threatens to be the main source of regional conflict. Afghanistan is looking for ways to harness the potential offered by its water resources, and has major infrastructure projects in the works. But neighboring dow...
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Much of $1bn Afghanistan tax bill is bogus, says US
American watchdog claims Afghan government is charging US contractors ...
Afghanistan Exit: Kabul and Berlin Estranged as Withdrawal Looms
With the security situation deteriorating in Afghanistan, Chancellor ...
Should India Provide Direct Military Aid to Afghanistan?
Over the past decade, India has invested heavily in Afghanistan’s rec...
What have we learned about stabilization in Afghanistan? Not much.
As of this year, Afghanistan has experienced ten years of stabilizatio...
