IT is gratifying that the government of Pakistan has conferred a civilian award posthumously on Iqbal Haider, a former law minister and senator but remembered now as one of the country’s foremost human rights and peace activists.The award came befittingly on Dec 10, Human Rights Day. This was shortl...
LONDON: Increasingly extreme weather is worsening food insecurity, displacement and other problems for rural families in Bangladesh, effectively robbing them of basic human rights, argues a report released on Monday.“Climate change has become one of the major challenges to the enjoyment of the basic...
A blue-ribbon panel of scientific and technology advisers to President Obama warns that the nation risks losing its longstanding supremacy in food production because research in agriculture has not kept up with new challenges like climate change, depleted land and water resources and emerging pests,...
The sale of advanced battery maker A123 to China's Wanxiang Group could recoup US taxpayer funds. But critics warn the threats to US security outweigh any benefits from the pending sale of A123. The auction sale to a Chinese company of bankrupt advanced battery maker A123 Systems, which received ...
As NATO prepares to withdraw, Afghans will find it hard not to get caught up in the competing interests of regional powers Last month it emerged that Saudi Arabia is funding a $100m mosque and Islamic education center in Kabul, very similar to the Faisal mosque constructed in Islamabad in the 1980s...
Families forced to search for fallen kin as Afghan army fails to fulfill its promise to return dead soldiers' bodies. Kandahar, Afghanistan: After searching for 44 days, 78-year-old Najmuddin finally found the body of his son, an Afghan army lieutenant, in a freezer in this southern Afghan city. ...
ISLAMABAD: Allegations by Afghanistan's president that the recent suicide attack on the country’s spy chief was planned in neighboring Pakistan have raised bilateral tensions before key talks between the presidents of the two countries Tuesday in Turkey. The assassination attempt is seen as a setb...
KABUL: Despite a decline in the Taliban-led attacks due to the cold weather in an imminent winter in the war- hit Afghanistan over the past couple of weeks, the insurgents is mounting a new wave of violent attacks in the country recently. A senior official with the women's affairs department was s...
The homecoming of Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal is undoubtedly a land-mark and morale-boosting event for all Palestinians and their supporters.Indeed, this is what the entire Palestinian struggle is all, about, namely being able to return to one's homeland from which millions of our people were uproot...
While the Gaza conflict of 2008 will be remembered for resistance, defiance and victory, the current conflict will be remembered for hypocrisy. This is not to take away from the amazing resilience and patience demonstrated by the Palestinians on the ground who were exemplary in their courage and who...
The next time you stroll through downtown Kabul, you might be able to buy batteries from a RadioShack (RSH) outlet, the result of a new effort by the U.S. to shore up Afghanistan’s economy: selling American franchises to Afghan entrepreneurs. The U.S. has set a 2014 deadline for troops to withdraw...
NEW YORK: The U.S. military has detained more than 200 Afghan teenagers who were captured in the war for about a year at a time at a military prison next to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations. The U.S. State Department characterized the detainees held sin...
KABUL, Afghanistan: The man who tried to kill Afghanistan’s intelligence chief this week by smuggling a bomb into a guesthouse in Kabul concealed the device “around his groin,” according to a statement released Friday by the government. The statement suggested that could have been one reason the bom...
The latest suicide-bomb attack on an Afghan official was far from the first time the insurgents used the same trick. Why does it keep working? Sami Yousafzai reports. There’s something deeply disturbing about the way Taliban suicide bombers keep employing the same ruse to get within killing distanc...
Indonesia's Shi'ite minority is under heavy attack. Men, women, and children have been assaulted, schools damaged, and villages burned to the ground. Many have been killed. It is becoming increasingly clear that Saudi Arabia's intolerant brand of Wahabi Sunni Islam - propagated far and wide by Saudi...
- Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were "exterminated" by economic sanctions and/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent international legal authority says.The slaughter fits the classic definition of Genocide Convention ...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Many Afghans see dark clouds of uncertainty looming over the calendar as the 2014 deadline approaches for most foreign troops to withdraw, and worry that after that the international community will abandon them. Over the last decade, billions of aid dollars have flowed into Afg...
Aid group Swedish Committee for Afghanistan says NATO and Afghan troops damaged its building and used it as jail Kabul: NATO forces stormed into a clinic in central Afghanistan, damaging doors, windows and medical equipment, before using it as a jail and military command center, in violation of the...
The United States has abandoned our most effective and loyal friends in Afghanistan by deliberately failing to implement the Afghan Allies Protection Act. In 2011, I served as the chief adviser on rule of law for the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul (ISAF). I witnessed the heroism an...
Anisa, a volunteer Afghan health worker, had just left her home and was on her way to work when two armed men on motorcycles zipped past her. The gunmen shot the 20-year-old student, who worked as a village polio-vaccination worker, at least six times in the abdomen. Anisa was whisked to a local h...
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