WASHINGTON : The U.S. goal of building a self-sufficient power network in Afghanistan is threatened by an expiring subsidy and poor project management by the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to a new federal audit. The U.S. government has committed $88 million to help Afghanist...
ISLAMABAD : Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was arrested Friday in connection with his dismissal of top judges while he was president. Musharraf did not resist the detention, and plans to appeal his case to the Supreme Court. Several cars of armed police escorted Pakistan’s forme...
Afghanistan is weighing new regulations to extract its natural resources worth nearly $1 trillion. As foreign aid declines with the NATO forces withdrawal in 2014, this could bring the Afghan government new sources of income. Kabul, Afghanistan :An effort to make Afghanistan’s vast reserves of min...
The last time Afghans and Soviet soldiers faced off, it was on the battlefield. Today, more than 20 years since the end of the bloody Afghan-Soviet war, they met again on much friendlier ground -- a soccer pitch. A team of Afghan and Soviet veterans played a friendly soccer match on April 18 in Ka...
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan: This verdant town is home to some of Afghanistan’s greatest treasures: It is the birthplace of the celebrated poet Rumi, and the site of one of the country’s most storied mosques. It is the first Afghan city to have been connected with another country by rail. Among al...
KABUL: Attacks on aid workers in Afghanistan - the world’s most dangerous country for aid workers - are likely to be as high in 2013 as the worst year on record, 2011, according to a new report from the Afghanistan NGO Safety Office (ANSO) published today. The latest figures - which tally only inc...
Passivity in the run-up to next spring's Afghan presidential election will invite trouble. Afghanistan has held two presidential elections since 2001. Hamid Karzai won both, but the most recent (in 2009) was marred by irregularities such as stuffed ballot boxes and acrimony between Mr. Karzai and t...
KABUL:Spring is supposed to be a season when there is serenity and peace as nature comes to life again after a long and harsh winter. But in this militancy-plagued country, serenity is just wishful thinking as the Taliban militants continued without letup its orgy of killings, the bloodiest of whi...
I recently found myself trundling along a muddy track heading in the direction of Kabul's International Airport, laden with flak-jacket and close protection, and contemplating the gap between what we enjoy, even in the most needy communities in the UK, and the men, women and children on the streets ...
The commander of military forces in Afghanistan said Tuesday that the United States and its allies should keep troops in Kabul and the “four corners” of the country after 2014, warning about growing uncertainty across the region as the withdrawal begins. “Many Afghans have told me they no longer f...
The West invades Afghanistan, tries to control it, and has to retreat in defeat. Sound familiar? It happened in 1842 to the British and it’s happening now to America. Historian William Dalrymple explains how in writing his new book, Return of a King, he found eerie historical echoes repeating in the...
In November, Shannon Galpin was riding her single-speed mountain bike through the hills outside Kabul. It was her 11th visit to Afghanistan, and she had grown accustomed to the sight of camel caravans, abandoned Soviet tanks and soldiers sweeping the desert for land mines. One thing she had not se...
How do you collect a $200,000 electricity bill from an Afghan warlord? Try cutting him off from the grid. Then turn off your cell phone so he can't yell at you. General Rashid Dostum - one of Afghanistan's most powerful militia leaders - found someone else to reconnect him within hours, said Mirwa...
After years of bloodshed, relative calm has descended on Helmand. The soldiers preparing to go home tell Kim Sengupta their thoughts on the country’s future “The firing just would not stop. The bullets were so close I could see them flying past me, I knew if I moved one inch I’d have been hit. So I...
CAMP THUNDER, Afghanistan - Gen. Mohammad Sharif Yaftali, commander of Afghanistan’s 203rd Thunder Corps, looked happy as he sat down for lunch in his eastern command post near the border with Pakistan. He had every reason to be smiling, as did his U.S. advisers. His troops, he said, had just su...
The use of strongmen to fight Al Qaida and Taliban has fragmented the tribal system and made civil war a real possibility after US forces leave Last week the UK’s defence select committee published a report which concluded that civil war in Afghanistan is likely when international forces leave nex...
UN report reveals rapid growth of poppy farming as western troops get ready to withdraw, which reflects particularly badly on Britain Twelve years after the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan is heading for a near-record opium crop as instability pushes up the amount of land planted with illegal but...
Denmark is looking to co-operate with the UK and the US when it comes to the safety of Afghan interpreters. The defence minister, Nick Hækkerup (Socialdemokraterne), said this week that Denmark has an ethical and moral responsibility to the Afghan interpreters who were employed by the Danish milit...
Afghan artists have enjoyed relative freedom in recent years. But with foreign troops packing up, can it last? KABUL, Afghanistan :Despite being about 90 and walking with a severe hunch, Ustad Amruddin will not let anyone else carry his dilruba — a classical stringed instrument that is rarely playe...
After stepping on a Taliban landmine and losing three limbs, Giles Duley now documents an all-too-familar tale of suffering on the border of Jordan and Syria Giles Duley, the award-winning photojournalist who escaped with his life but lost three limbs after stepping on a landmine in Afghanistan in ...
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