While scientific research continues to indicate the frequency of megastorms and hurricanes like Sandy are on the rise as a result of climate change and global warming, politicians from both sides of the aisle have been loathe to discuss the issue in recent years. On the presidential campaign trail, ...
PARIS: The hammer blow dealt to New York by superstorm Sandy should raise the alarm for coastal mega-cities in Asia which are more exposed but less equipped to deal with such threats, experts said on Tuesday.New York was able to draw on top-level civil engineering, good governance and the world's ri...
WASHINGTON: Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York.Just eight months earlier, the Princeton University professor reported that what used to be once-in-a-century devastating floods in New York C...
Students tired of the violence in Afghanistan oppose naming Kabul Education University after a former warlord. Their chancellor criticizes their stubbornness. KABUL, Afghanistan: If they could sit down together, the chancellor and the hotheaded student activist who helped shut down his university m...
LONDON: British ministers say the development program in Afghanistan is failing to protect the rights of Afghan women. A new government report says Britain should reconsider its ambition of building Afghan government institutions and instead focus on more traditional aid targets, especially women's ...
The UK might have to recognize that creating a viable state in Afghanistan is not achievable, an influential group of MPs has said. The Commons international development committee said the UK should reconsider its ambition of building Afghan government institutions in favor of more traditional aid...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has increased efforts to reach out to some of its biggest enemies in Afghanistan, a significant policy shift that could prove crucial to U.S.-backed efforts to strike a peace deal in the neighboring country. The target of the diplomatic push has mainly been non-Pashtun politica...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has freed DynCorp International, one of the largest U.S. contractors in Afghanistan, of responsibility for construction at an Afghan army garrison even though long-standing deficiencies remain, according to an inspector general’s report. In a 2010 audit, Pentagon i...
ZED Ain is a diehard jiyala. His natural place is at a Pakistan People’s Party jalsa, raising deafening slogans of ‘Jeay Bhutto’.He has been attending PPP rallies since Benazir Bhutto’s historic return from exile in 1986. For this purpose, he has travelled the length and breadth of the country and i...
When delegates gather in Dubai in December for an obscure UN agency meeting, fighting is expected to be intense over proposals to rewrite global telecom rules to effectively give the United Nations control over the Internet.Russia, China and other countries back a move to place the Internet under th...
Yasmeen Lari poses quite a challenge to any writer who attempts to profile her. She is dynamic, energetic and totally committed to her projects. As someone who has followed her career for two decades, I have been highly impressed with her dedication to many causes that she has espoused but wasn’t aw...
While the Pakistan army conducts a security operation in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) against militants, there remains a cloak that shadows the entire operation. According to data compiled by an independent research organization, Fata Research Centre, clashes during the first eight mon...
KABUL : Of the more than 5,700 Afghans who have applied for U.S. visas under a special program tailored for those who have supported the American war effort, just 32 have been approved, the State Department says, leaving the rest in limbo as foreign forces begin their withdrawal. The growing, prot...
Animal skins are a top export, but traders say they will never make money unless the government kick-starts the tanning industry. Afghanistan: Kamaluddin shouts at his team to load up the trucks as quickly as possible so that they get on the road. By the afternoon, they should have made the run dow...
Why hasn't the media noticed? Last week, a New York Times editorial argued that it is time for U.S. forces to leave Afghanistan -- a process that it said should not take more than a year, a much faster timeline than the president has proposed. The editorial reflects the growing effort to justify ...
When the British decided to define the outer limits of their Indian empire, they fudged the question. After two disastrous wars in Afghanistan, they sent the Foreign Secretary of India, Sir Mortimer Durand, to Kabul in 1893 to agree the limits of British and Afghan influence. The result was the Dura...
America's exit strategy in Afghanistan is to have Afghan forces take the lead in fighting for their country. But too often these days, the job still falls to U.S. troops. A senior officer in Afghanistan tells NPR that Americans continue to coddle Afghan forces and that this must stop. Tough love i...
GARDEZ, Afghanistan: Military-led teams set up to deliver aid projects in Afghanistan are winding down their operations, sparking concern among some local officials that the government is not ready to take over their development role. Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) were a key part of U.S.-le...
Foreign diplomats visiting Kabul tread carefully when it comes to the Durand Line, knowing full well that the colonial-era border separating British India and Afghanistan is a touchy subject. Merely affirming a long-standing policy when it comes to the contentious demarcation can be viewed by Afgh...
KABUL: October days are usually crisp and clear in Kabul, but last Friday soccer fans awoke to leaden skies and an intermittent drizzle. Still, the open-air bleachers of Kabul’s main soccer stadium were packed, with 5,000 spectators, while outside the police, toting AK-47s and wooden batons, kept ...
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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...
