KABUL: "I am hopeful to harvest some 100 kg hashish from this field and that will help me to survive the harsh winter," a farmer in northern Baghlan province who introduced himself as Awaz Mohammad murmured while walking on his small hash farm. Carrying an assault rifle AK-47, the bearded man defe...
KABUL: "It is a great day. Millions of my war-weary people have fun today and this is all thanks to football, “Hamid Jazemi, a member of the champion Afghan football team, said over the weekend. Afghanistan's first one-month long professional football league ended on Friday after the western team ...
WASHINGTON: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. described the Obama administration’s latest war strategy in deliberately stark terms in his debate with Representative Paul D. Ryan: “We are leaving Afghanistan in 2014, period.” Mr. Ryan did not dispute that deadline, but insisted on a little wiggle ro...
Has the US Banned the Autobiography of a Former Guantanamo Prisoner? People might remember the name David Hicks. He is an Australian who was held prisoner at Guantanamo Bay from 2001 until 2007. In 2010 he published an autobiography entitled Guantanamo: My Journey. Reportedly the book details the y...
It is a fairly common sight at upscale restaurants, weddings, dinners, birthday parties and, of course, homes. In the hustle and bustle, the clattering and chatting, it is easy to overlook the slightly frightened, submissive little figure. Her age not even in double digits, mechanically following in...
The new Afghan film "Buzkashi Boys," has earned international critical acclaim for its poignant portrayal of two impoverished boys in Kabul struggling to realize their dreams. While earning accolades abroad, the film has also made waves in Afghanistan, where it has invigorated the small local film...
SISAY OUTPOST, Afghanistan: There is an Afghan version of this story and a very different American one, but the moral is the same: insider killings of Western troops and civilians by Afghan forces, which have taken 51 coalition lives this year, have broken trust between the two military forces and l...
Top Pentagon leaders, White House advisers and members of Congress from both parties have long regarded the rapid expansion of Afghanistan’s army and police as a crucial element of the U.S. exit strategy. For years, they reasoned that generating a force of 352,000 soldiers and policemen would enable...
Romney criticizes Obama's foreign policy but offers few specifics on his ideas about Afghanistan and the use of U.S. troops. DELRAY BEACH, Fla: In the 16 months that he has been running for president, the thrust of Mitt Romney's policy toward Afghanistan has been this: He would hew to President Oba...
Economic experts at home and abroad, as well as international financial institutions (IFIs) including the IMF have expressed serious concern over the deteriorating fiscal and external balance of payments situation, slowing economic growth, vanishing domestic and foreign investment, sharply declining...
“Each day around a quarter of the country’s teachers do not turn up to school” – Sir Michael Barber, Co-chair, Pakistan Education Task Force With the dilapidated state of education in a country where several systems of education run overlapping each other, the lowest in terms of status and performan...
Cartoons- a world of imagination for children For a child anything that comes in the form of a cartoon becomes highly attractive and not only in terms of amusement but also in terms of observing the minute details of a cartoon, like his clothes, his actions, way of speaking, his goals, a child gets ...
ISLAMABAD : Though a large number of accountholders have been deprived of their money by fraudsters through the automated teller machines (ATMs), it was perhaps for the first time that a citizen in the federal capital found a skimmer attached to an ATM. A skimmer can be fixed in the ATM slot for co...
ArtNow recently invited the internationally renowned artist Bani Abidi to talk about her work as a part of it’s Springboard series held at FOMMA – Foundation for Museum of Modern Art . Speaking to a large audience from various professions and all age groups, Abidi who is originally trained as a pai...
The 16th day of April 1853 is special in the Indian history. The day was a public holiday. At 3:30 pm, as the 21 guns roared together, the first train carrying Lady Falkland, wife of Governor of Bombay, along with 400 special invitees, steamed off from Bombay to Thane. Ever since the engine rolled ...
It felt like rekindling with a former flame – the sweaty palms, the shortness of breath and the butterflies. It had been four long years apart and the reunion was going to be something special. It felt like I was finally home as I walked into the gates of National Stadium with the floodlights, the c...
Global warming has hit particularly hard Tanzania’s national parks, threatening displacing millions of wildlife and putting the thriving tourism at risk. Owing to global warming, currently Tanzania is likely to lose one of the key national parks in its most valuable strips of tourism real estate of...
Skiing aficionados who often go to Australia to experience the resource-rich nation's ski resorts and alpine regions may be forced to scout other locations in the coming years as the worsening global climate change could kill the Australian ski industry by year 2020. A report by Sky News predicted t...
British women serving in Helmand photographed meeting village women trying to get their voices heard The decade-long war in Afghanistan has been the focus of countless books and exhibitions, but there is one view of the conflict that has not been described well – until now. The Royal British Legi...
John A. Nagl is a retired Army officer, who served in both wars in Iraq, and a professor at the U.S. Naval Academy. He is the author of “Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife.” Americans haven’t lost a war in so long, we’ve forgotten what doing so looks like — and what it costs. The only war that we u...
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The Islamophobia Industry - a response to the Times
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Space tourism won't hurt environment: Branson
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Invisibility of mothers
AS a new government enters the corridors of power in Sindh it will fin...
Guantánamo Hunger Strikers Subject to Harsh New Method of Force Feeding
Lawyers for inmates say humiliating body searches instituted for priso...
