KARACHI, Pakistan : During some sleepless nights when his stark bedroom walls remind him too much of his old prison cell in Afghanistan, Jan Sher Khan scans Internet dating sites he'd heard about from U.S. soldiers who once guarded him. The 24-year-old Pakistani never contacts anyone on the dating...
Our self-appointed defenders council has a 10-point agenda, from pressurizing the government to withdraw India’s MFN status to pressurizing the government to stop NATO supplies againI cannot decide what infuriates me more this week, the fact that ‘Duffer’-e-Pakistan has its own Facebook page, which ...
What is in a name? Perhaps much if we listen in carefully. A couple of years ago, some Muslims in Malaysia objected to Christians using the name of Allah to denote God. Almost as if they had a copyright over the usage of the name Allah, these Muslims argued that since Allah was the name of their God...
JAMES HOLMES, who opened fire before the midnight premiere of “The Dark Knight Rises,” could not have seen the movie. Like many whose misery is reflected in violence, he may simply have been drawn to a highly publicized event with a big crowd. In cynical terms, he was seeking a publicity tie-in. ...
The past is an obsession, finds Rakshanda Jalil, in three bleak books that showcase Arab women's writingRunning as a refrain through these three books - all by Arab women writers and all published in India by Women Unlimited - is a haunting sense of nostalgia and longing. An ode to a world that once...
Concerns growing over violence in central highland province after two bombs killed nine police officers earlier this month Kabul: The central highland province of Bamiyan has long been an island of security in the rising tide of Afghanistan's insurgency, largely insulated from the blasts and gunfir...
KABUL: Behind the court rulings and loud pronouncements about mass expulsions, harassment of Afghan migrants by Pakistani authorities is causing a steady stream of returnees with the potential to become a human flood, swamping Afghanistan’s already shaky social services. These returnees are largel...
How could NATO get supplies out of Afghanistan in time for the drawdown? A shipping container worth of gear sent every seven minutes, all day, every day. Writing in Foreign Policy, Vanda Felbab-Brown explains that, according to NATO officials, in order to remove International Security Assistance F...
KABUL: "Oh Allah Almighty, please accept our pray for the sake of Ramadan, for the sake of innocent children and for Your Greatness, ignore our sins and ensure lasting peace in Afghanistan," a prayer leader prayed in a local mosque here in the Afghan capital at Friday congregation. In his call whi...
China will open investigations into imported U.S. and South Korean solar-grade polysilicon, the country's trade ministry said on Friday, in the latest instance of growing tensions between major solar manufacturers.The Ministry of Commerce said that it would open anti-dumping and anti-subsidy probes ...
Kai Ryssdal: We have, in this country alone, something like 70,000 tons of high level nuclear waste -- 250,000 worldwide, give or take. What we don't have, here or anywhere else, is a place to put it all. And figuring that out means you have to convince people it'll be okay to store nuclear waste...
COMBAT death statistics suggest the Afghan army is allowing Australian and other international forces and local police to do most of the fighting in Oruzgan, with an Afghan brigadier initially claiming no Afghan soldier had been killed in the province in battle this year. During the same period, A...
While we must accept political Islamism, radical Islamism must be defeated. There should be no naive optimism and hope that somehow the radicalization in the Muslim world will end. While dialogue is necessary with political Islam, whose influence is important in certain parts of the world, there can...
On June 24, 2012, “Lonesome George” passed away. He was the last surviving land tortoise from Pinta Island, one of the northern islands in the Galápagos archipelago, and home to an active volcano. Thought to be 100 years old, Lonesome George lived at the Charles Darwin Research Station since he was...
The government of Gabon, a sovereign state on the west coast of Africa, set fire to over five tons of ivory today—sending a strong message that the illegal ivory trade and elephant poaching will not be tolerated in the country. The government-held stockpile corresponds to about 850 elephants and cam...
THE report that a team of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances will visit Pakistan in September must have raised hopes in many a heart in Balochistan. Will this initiative give the efforts to resolve the issue of disappearances a decisive boost?One hopes nothing...
The militancy did not spare even its promoters. The US met 9/11. Pakistan has been facing suicide attacks and bomb blasts on a daily basisGeneral Musharraf’s policies did not change much for the better in the India-Pakistan relationship. Even earlier efforts made in this regard by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutt...
NSA Spying: 'If We Tell You, We'll Have to Kill You' What most Americans are blissfully unaware of is the fact that they carry in their pockets what have been described as near-perfect spy devices: their cell phones.Yet scarcely a year after FAA was signed into law by President Bush, The New York T...
The four are all being held indefinitely and without charge in Afghanistan after being captured in other countries. They are seeking the right to challenge their detention. One was a Yemeni businessman who was abducted while on a trip to Thailand. Another was a 14-year-old picked up in Pakistan and...
WASHINGTON: Congress is stepping up the pressure on the Obama administration to slap the terrorist label on the Haqqani network, a militant group responsible for plotting and launching attacks from Pakistan against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan. By voice vote Tuesday, the House approved a bill th...
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A cooler century? Wait and see
New research suggesting that the Earth may be warming a little more s...
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Noam Chomsky: Obama Was Willing to Start Nuclear War to Kill bin Laden
"Raw Story" - MIT Professor Noam Chomsky criticized the killing of al...
