The garment factory in Karachi has claimed more than 280 lives by now and death toll is constantly rising. According to Pakistani media, it was their salary day and the five story building was full of employees. According to some international media the denim garments stitched in the factory was ex...
KABUL: Eleven years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the downfall of the al-Qaida- backed Taliban regime in Afghanistan, war-weary Afghans are still longing for a durable peace in their country. "As you know, 11 years after the invasion of Afghanistan by the NATO and U.S. ...
LAST week, the United States designated the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network a “foreign terrorist organization,” placing it alongside Hamas and Al Qaeda. But to what end? America and its allies have learned a lot over the past decade in Afghanistan. But some fundamentals have remained elusive an...
An argument with a teenager culminated in calamity for children who sold trinkets outside NATO headquarters in Afghanistan Kabul: Nawab had been crowned the best skateboarder in Afghanistan, a joker and unofficial leader of the unruly gang. Mohammad Esa was perhaps the cleverest of his friends, alw...
RENO, Nevada: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney used the anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, to do some repair work. Still under fire from Democrats for not mentioning the war in Afghanistan during his nomination acceptance speech at the Republican convention on Augu...
KABUL, Afghanistan: President Hamid Karzai’s determination to make a close aide, Asadullah Khalid, his next intelligence chief has divided Western officials here, some of whom say they are troubled by allegations of torture and drug trafficking against Mr. Khalid and worry that in such a powerful ro...
BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson in Kabul says that there is not much optimism nowadays among Afghan politicians, diplomats and soldiers. In a country which has known nothing but war for 40 years, the assumption is that it will just continue. The most serious danger is that a political vacu...
Large majorities in Europe and US favor withdrawal or troop reduction, according to transatlantic trends survey Public support for the war in Afghanistan is collapsing in western and NATO member countries, with 53% of Europeans and 44% of Americans favoring the immediate withdrawal of all troops, a...
DUBAI/KABUL: Not long ago, Mohammed Daoud was making good money hiring out halls for wedding parties thrown by a new class of Afghan war entrepreneurs. Today, he is using some of the profits to buy a $160,000 apartment nestled amid the skyscrapers and shopping malls of Dubai. Daoud sees his 27th...
WASHINGTON: Two U.S. generals denied Wednesday that they tried to stop an inspector general's investigation in 2010 into corruption and patient neglect at a U.S.-funded Afghan military hospital. Lt. Gen. William Caldwell and Maj. Gen. Gary Patton disputed congressional testimony from July, when an...
Undoubtedly, Pakistan’s politics is more like a live-version of the Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ in both the literal and figurative aspect of the word. Here also, some people think that they have more rights as they continue to reject and spurn others as second-class citizens. Some people always think tha...
Recently Iran agreed to export 80,000 barrels crude per day to Pakistan. Pakistan requested a loan of $500 Million from Iran for the pipeline to be built. Iran refused for $500 million but agreed for half the amount – $250 million. This loan of $250 million doesn’t have the interest rate decided or...
Dear Mr. President, This is to condemn the committee appointed for the selection of players in different categories in the ICC awards for the year 2012. As you are already aware the Pakistan Cricket Board has already approached you regarding the nomination of Saeed Ajmal but only in vain and to no e...
More than 250 people were consumed by fire as flames turned a garment factory in Baldia Town Karachi town into an abattoir. Death toll from factory fire shocks the nation as the tragedy was beyond one’s imagination. Hundreds of people were burnt alive or from suffocation and their family members cou...
KABUL: Mohammed Nabi stares out the window of his floor tile shop across a busy highway at the construction scaffolds rising around partially built apartment complexes and office buildings. The scene in the Afghan capital appears to be evidence of bustling enterprise, until one sees that the scaff...
Editor’s note: Brad Adams is the Asia Director at Human Rights Watch. The views expressed are his own. The Afghanistan government appears to have a new policy for dealing with government officials accused of sadistic torture: it rewards them with job promotions. President Hamid Karzai has announ...
The U.S. Army has been ramping up instruction in the languages of Afghanistan, even as troop levels in the country decrease in preparation for the U.S. troop withdrawal in 2014. This year, key installations have added several hundred speakers of Pashto and Dari to their ranks, more than doubling t...
The fear and loathing of being gay in an Afghanistan where family is king is exposed by Hamid Zaher's memoirs The first time he slept with a man, Hamid Zaher was a young Afghan with little experience of life outside the city of Kabul. His lover, an older, Pakistani man, happened to be just the righ...
KABUL: A minor traffic incident in Kabul this weekend escalated into a deadly gun battle between rival ethnic groups that threatened to rekindle civil-war tensions and marred a major government celebration. Saturday's fighting pitted ethnic Tajiks from the Panjshir province north of Kabul against ...
Afghans who fled the Soviet invasion and, later, Taliban rule will lose their refugee status in Pakistan at year's end, making them vulnerable to deportation. KHAZANA, Pakistan: Awal Gul knows that home is just a two-hour drive over the jagged ridgeline that separates Pakistan from Afghanistan. But...
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US, Germany, Italy vow key Afghan roles post-2014
BRUSSELS: Germany and Italy will join the United States as "lead nati...
Soldier pleads guilty in massacre of 16 Afghans
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash: The American soldier accused of killin...
Coalition Deliberates Afghan Presence
Brussels: The top commander of the U.S.-led military coalition in Afg...
In Afghanistan, grief for a husband who shouldn't have died
Khosh Gombat, Afghanistan: Whenever Bibi Laila heard the all-too-fami...
