KABUL: The senior commander for Special Operations forces in Afghanistan has suspended training for all new Afghan recruits until the more than 27,000 Afghan troops working with his command can be re-vetted for ties to the insurgency. The move comes as NATO officials struggle to stem the tide of a...
KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan: Abdul Karim was inside when the first rocket struck, killing nearly everyone in a neighboring mud-brick house. Many more rockets followed, raining down on the village as Karim and others fled for safety in the nearby mountains. Within minutes, it was over, but it was o...
RAROTONGA, Cook Islands: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is facing a Congressional deadline for deciding whether the Pakistani Haqqani network meets the definition of a terrorist organization. Labeling the group as such may complicate Afghan reconciliation efforts and U.S. relations with Pak...
“If you work hard, and put your heart and soul into it, then you are allowed to steal some,” said Shivpal Singh Yadav, a minister for public works for India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh (UP). “But don’t be a bandit.” Caught on camera, Yadav’s words were replayed in newscasts across India on ...
Every day here in the land of pure we get a new surprise, don’t we? We try to surprise the world by presenting a car that runs on water as a fuel, We bewilder the world by claiming to cure diabetes by white sugar, we try to become self reliant in power by getting old and rotten power plants on rent,...
Written two centuries back, about a tumultuous event in Europe, the French Revolution, these words of Dickens: “…we had everythingbefore us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way,” can resonatefamiliarly in Pakistan. Moral zealots, imbu...
A common view -Free trade between the two countries usually at crossroads would only bring substantial economic benefits to both the countries. Statistical support: studies show that the removal of tariff and non-tariff barriers between the two countries, low transportation costs and granting the Mo...
The story that begins with the birth of renowned fiction writer H. G. Wells hasn’t ended this moment, it rather has completed its first chapter in real history with Neil Armstrong breathing his last a few hours ago! He was the first man who landed on Moon … already fantasized by Wells in 1901. This ...
The first batch of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) passed out under the supervision of Dr Zainul Wahab, Head of the Art and Design department, Hazara University. Department of Art and Design at Hazara University arranged a display work at department Lawn and Art Gallery of the University. First ba...
KABUL, Afghanistan: The decapitated bodies of a 7-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy found Friday in the country’s south and east continued a spate of grisly beheadings in Afghanistan this week. The body of the boy was discovered in the rural Panjwai district of Kandahar Province in the south, wh...
As noted by Ahmad Majidyar yesterday, the killing of three Australian troops this week marked the latest in a string of insider, or so-called green-on-blue, attacks by members of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) against Western troops. These attacks have severely eroded NATO’s trust in its...
WASHINGTON: Risking a new breach in relations with Pakistan, the Obama administration is leaning toward designating the Haqqani network, the insurgent group responsible for some of the most spectacular assaults on American bases in Afghanistan in recent years, as a terrorist organization. With a C...
U.S. President Barack Obama has told U.S. soldiers heading to Afghanistan they still faced a "very tough fight" but vowed to end the war there as "responsibly" as in Iraq. Obama was speaking August 31 at Fort Bliss in the southern state of Texas. "You know this. You carry it in your hearts, the ...
Almost daily, Taliban assassins target Afghan government officials and community elders with ambushes or bombings. The United Nations says such killings are up more than 50 percent compared to the same period last year. On Monday, the target was the powerful police chief in southern Afghanistan's ...
A gunman in an Afghan army uniform killed three Australian soldiers in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday night, the latest in an alarming string of so-called “green-on-blue” attacks that have eroded morale and trust at a critical juncture as foreign troops are withdrawing and transitioning security ...
Despite setbacks, the international effort to bring lasting peace and stability to Afghanistan is working Much has been written in the past week regarding Nato's ongoing efforts to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan. It is clear to me that the coalition of 50 nations with troops in Afghanista...
Uzbekistan, which is seeking closer ties to the US, may have made the move in a bid to ease concerns of China and Russia, which are both dominant actors in Central Asia. Almaty, Kazakhstan: Today, Uzbekistan’s upper house of parliament approved a new bill banning any foreign military bases on its ...
CHAR DARAH, Afghanistan* Flagship militia set up to ease public anxiety, not fuel it * But gains often overshadowed by allegations of rape, murder Fahima had just arrived home from school when members of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a U.S.-trained militia charged with making Afghans in Taliban...
KABUL, Afghanistan: President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has broadened a top-level cabinet shake-up, firing the country’s spy chief on Wednesday and, according to Western officials, lining up replacements for that post and the vacant Defense and Interior Ministries, at least one of which seemed lik...
KABUL, Afghanistan: An Afghan Cabinet minister dogged by torture allegations is slated to become the new chief of Afghanistan’s notorious intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security. The appointment of Asadullah Khalid, the minister of border and tribal affairs, will be announced wi...
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