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 What's at stake for Afghan Women?

Editor's note: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is author of The New York Times best-seller "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana," which tells the true story of a girl whose business supported her family under the Taliban. A fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, she has written widely on entrepreneurs in confli...

 Was It a Good Year in Afghanistan?

Looking back at a troubling 2012 filled with progress and peril, it's hard to determine whether the United States is winning this war. As 2012 draws to a close, we should all cast a thought to the roughly 68,000 American living in dusty military outposts in places such as Kabul and Kandahar who are...

 Report finds US energy production growing, consumption down

A new report shows U.S. energy consumption dropping, even as the industry experiences a boost in production.U.S. energy consumption declined 3 percent between January and September compared with that period last year, according to data the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released Wednes...

 Mississippi River drops, threatening barge traffic

ST. LOUIS: The Mississippi River level is dropping again and barge industry trade groups warned Thursday that river commerce could essentially come to a halt as early as next week in an area south of St. Louis.Mike Petersen of the Army Corps of Engineers said ice on the northern Mississippi River is...

 Natural gas faces a long road to overtake diesel

All the talk of natural gas as a cheap alternative fuel has some who make or use diesel products rolling their eyes.Not so fast, say backers of diesel, the fuel of choice for the largest, most powerful and thirstiest engines on the planet. They say talk of natural gas replacing diesel is nonsense be...

 Yearender: Security tops concerns in Afghanistan in 2012

KABUL: The year 2012 has seen frantic efforts by the government of President Hamid Karzai in putting in place an effective security apparatus and a viable economic plan in preparation for the pullout of all foreign forces from the country in 2014. The government has also bent over backwards in try...

 Prof. Manzooruddin Ahmed (Ex-Vice Chancellor, Karachi University) Remembered

On the evening of December 27, 2012, our house phone rang with bad news. I was informed that Professor Dr. Manzooruddin Ahmed, Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi, had died of pneumonia. The next day, my wife and I attended his funeral and offered our condolences to the grieving fami...

 Christmas in Moharram

It was a sad Christmas for me this year. I was offended and deeply hurt. I wanted to cry, in fact, weep. That may well be because of my Shia training that helps men break the boys-never-cry jinx and allows them to shed tears when they feel hapless. I was powerless, dejected and frustrated.The first ...

 Connected to all the wrong things

An increasing number of ordinary people feel the need to live their lives in public. Not entertainers or people in the public eye, but everyday people like neighbors, friends and people I work with.They tweet their every thought, their every action, write on Facebook their deepest fears and darkest ...

 “Everybody needs water, it is not political”

Asha has three children, aged 10, 12, and 15. Until recently, they were constantly ill. “They had bad stomach and fever all the time,” she says. “I had to take them to the hospital with dysentery. I thought my youngest child was going to die.”Similar to millions of other Pakistanis, Asha and her fam...