As the earth heats up, the frequency of rainfalls increases and temperatures are recorded by new highs and lows – weather extremes once considered anomalies are now becoming a part our daily lives.While most scientists are careful not to link specific weather events to climate-change trends, some su...
United Kashmir People’s National Party Organized Seminar On “Kashmir Conflict and Chinese Design in the Region” On 22nd February, 2012 The United Kashmir People’s National Party (UKPNP), Belgium branch held a seminar on the title of “Kashmir Conflict and Chinese designs in the Region” Workers an...
Women were a key force in the popular protests that toppled Tunisia's government last year and kicked off the Arab Spring. But now many Tunisian women worry that the new government may want to turn back the clock. Women were a conspicuous force when Tunisians took to the streets in 2010-11 to oust...
In the last 10 years since the Godhra train carnage and then months-long massacres of Muslims, the state of Gujarat has seen changes taking place in the society. The Ahmedabad-based author presents her observation about the present Gujarat--Editor • Still a Gujarati means a Hindu native of G...
BEIJING: Authorities in Beijing said Sunday that the city will replace all coal-fired equipment in its core areas by 2013, as the Chinese capital strives to curb pollution stemming from its dominant energy source. The city will cap its annual coal consumption at 15 million tonnes by 2015, setting a...
SUMMIT COUNTY: More than 100 of California’s bird species are vulnerable to global warming impacts, including 21 of the state’s 29 threatened and endangered bird species that will be further impacted by climate change, increasing their risk of extinction.At-risk birds include wetland birds like the ...
Bright Source Energy has spent $56 million so far to protect the endangered creatures, but calamities have befallen the effort. Reporting from Ivanpah Valley, Calif.— Stubborn does not come close to describing the desert tortoise, a species that did its evolving more than 220 million years ago an...
The degree of anti-American animosity evident during the recent Koran-burning protests in Afghanistan provides yet another illustration of the abject failure of the U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine, the sine qua non of which is the unconditional support of the local population. The crisis also high...
Bamiyan was once renowned for the famous Buddha statues, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. But now this central Afghan province is working hard to attract tourists to its snowy slopes with a ski festival, writes BBC Afghan's Ramin Anwari. "Forget about war, forget about terrorism. For now, this is...
EXCLUSIVE: Afghan insurgents denounce 'fake' call for restraint during peace talks. Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau on new dissent in the ranks. Mullah Mohammad Omar can hardly be blamed if he has second thoughts about having entered into peace discussions with his sworn enemy, the United States. As ...
Latest versions are so sophisticated and hard to spot that some Afghans suspect a plot to undermine their monetary system. Afghanistan: A new wave of counterfeit Afghan banknotes has arrived in Afghanistan, undermining confidence in the local currency and disrupting the money market, officials say....
Pakistan’s women hockey team may be verging on non-existence at the moment but things were very different back in the late 1970s when the first women’s team was formed.“Hockey is a great game and we enjoyed playing it very much. Pakistan was doing very well in men’s field hockey at the time and we h...
The failure in eradicating polio is a cause for concern. According to last month’s media reports, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has ‘informally warned’ Pakistan to control the spread of polio, HIV/Aids and hepatitis on emergency basis, failing which it would be placed among the countries on ‘w...
LAHORE: Sixty-year-old Younus Masih’s life-long wish was fulfilled on Friday when he got a chance to sing on the Alhamra stage. And just in time.Masih is known as an accomplished tailor in Naseerabad and as a passionate amateur singer. He had pinned his hope on Mirza Abdul Latif, a friend a few year...
Kai Ryssdal: The energy industry got its hands on a hot new number today -- a fresh estimate of China's natural gas resources. Beijing says it has about 50 percent more natural gas than the United States does, all of it sitting there waiting to be tapped. Most of it’s trapped in rock out in western ...
Afghanistan will start accepting investor offers next week to explore for at least 600 million barrels of crude oil in the western half of the Afghan-Tajik Basin, the country’s mining minister said. The auction beginning March 7 will cover six blocks in the basin, located in the country’s north, a...
Latest survey suggests Marco Polo sheep numbers have risen. Afghanistan: Counting sheep in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province may be difficult, but shooting them is easy enough when the weapon of choice is an AK-47. The Marco Polo sheep, named after the 13th century Italian explorer who first desc...
LONDON: A British ethics group has launched a debate on the ethical dilemmas posed by new technologies that tap into the brain and could bring super-human strength, highly enhanced concentration or thought-controlled weaponry. With the prospect of future conflicts between armies controlling weapons...
GADDANI: Mehdi Hassan was clinging to a greasy rope, toiling high inside the hull of an oil tanker, when he became another victim of lax safety standards at Pakistan's Gaddani ship breaking yard. He suddenly slipped and fell to the floor in the dark. Unable to move all night with broken bones and w...
FOR all the talk doing the rounds about Balochistan in the popular media these days one cannot help but wonder why there is so little mention of east Bengal and the series of events that led to the break-up of the state in 1971. Throughout the 24 years that the original Pakistan remained intact the...
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Flying with the Afghan Air Force
It will take nearly five years for the Afghan Air Force to become full...
Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent
President Barack Obama trimmed his funding request for the war in Afg...
Dr. Cornel West Calls President Obama a War Criminal
Cornel West: 'They say I'm un-American' The American academic and f...
Afghan Taliban Fighters Turn on Pakistan
“The true face of our enemy has now been revealed,” says one commander...
