Over the last decade, a stereotypical image of Pakistan has crystallized over a span in the Western media. For most people abroad, Pakistan is a haven for bearded, gun slinging extremists gung-ho about blowing places up and imposing Sharia law. Contrary to this depiction are some alternative stories...
SHAH WALI KOT, AFGHANISTAN: Heavy snow falling high in the Hindu Kush lifts the spirits of farmers far to the south as they scrape out a living in the Taliban’s desert heartland. The harder winter pounds the distant peaks, the happier they are. Their fate rides on the rivers of melt water that f...
OSAKA: With the renewable energy field expanding worldwide, South Korean solar power companies are eager to get a foothold in the Japanese market.A major catalyst for the move was the July 1 start of a feed-in tariff system for renewable energy sources.On July 11, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotio...
A report has revealed a time bomb which could leave thousands of Midland homes at risk due to widespread building on flood plains.The Government’s advisers on climate change adaptation revealed that in Birmingham alone 11 per cent of developments built in the last three years are at ‘‘serious risk’’...
KABUL: For years, Kabul's Ghazi Stadium was notorious not for hosting sporting events, but for the executions, stoning, and mutilations carried out there by the Taliban. Its playing field was so blood-soaked, it was whispered, that even grass would not grow there. Such horror stories went a long w...
There comes a point in a protracted insurgency or "terrorist" campaign when the combatants recognize that neither is going to defeat the other. The result is military stalemate. This usually happens when the insurgents are under intense military pressure, in Afghanistan from the SAS and their US e...
School Documentary Project Seeks to Illuminate Open Secret: Young Boys at Work in Remote Coal Mines. KABUL: A video shot by an 18-year-old Afghan in the claustrophobic passages of a coal mine casts new light on one of Afghanistan's most disturbing challenges. Children as young as 10 toil in ill...
Afghan central bank inspector Fahim Satari stands in Kabul International Airport in front of a local businessman headed for Dubai, counting by hand the stack of $100 bills police found the passenger carrying to the gate. Satari declares the cash to be under the $20,000 per passenger limit imposed to...
TORONTO: American and British criticism of Canada's long and often bloody military efforts in Afghanistan has a ring of revisionism that ignores key facts, experts say. In particular, they say, the notion that blithely optimistic Canadians were reluctant to ask for outside help as they struggled a...
As donors promise 16 billion US dollars, some Afghans say effects of previous aid have been limited. Afghanistan: Afghans have welcomed the latest pledge of international aid to their country, saying it suggests the West will not abandon Afghanistan to its fate after most foreign troops withdraw by...
KABUL: More than 1 million Afghans have been suffering from drug addiction, an official said Wednesday. "Around one million Afghans, aged 15 to 64, suffer from drug addiction throughout the country," Dr. Mohammad Tahir Sultani, head of a 200-bed drug addicts' hospital, told reporters during a camp...
Afghanistan is launching its first professional football championship with the ambitious goal of bringing peace to the war-torn country -- and with teams chosen on a groundbreaking reality television show. Thousands of young Afghans have already applied to take part, with the members of each of th...
The Afghan political system is broken, just as the country finds itself juggling multiple political and security challenges. Among the most pressing is ensuring the transition of power from President Hamid Karzai to a capable successor by 2014. Getting this right will go a long way toward salvaging ...
A new report comes up with a better way to size up wealth “WEALTH is not without its advantages,” John Kenneth Galbraith once wrote, “and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.” Despite the obvious advantages of wealth, nations do a poor job of...
Balochistan: Crossroads of Proxy WarThe current unrest in Balochistan centers around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings, assassinations and terrorism. However, these are merely the tactics of a much broader, more geopolitically complex war in which the United States and its Wester...
KRYMSK, Russia: Forty-six new graves were cut on Tuesday in a field outside this city, where catastrophic flooding has left behind a slime of mud and anger. Everyone here had a story of the pitch-black hours of Saturday morning, of being trapped inside homes as water rose to 6 and then to 8 and 10 f...
A UN agency has expressed concern that torture may have been used to extract confessions over the alleged serial poisoning of Afghan schoolgirls, which experts say is more likely to be mass hysteria. Sweeping arrests were made last month after the government came under pressure to act as hundreds ...
KABUL: The Afghan army and the NATO-led coalition troops have been stepping up mounting pressure on the Haqqani network, a Taliban and al-Qaida-linked militant group accused of strings of high-profile attacks in the insurgency-hit country in recent years. In the latest wave of search and cleanup o...
American debates over the war in Afghanistan tend to focus on how fast we can get our troops home and whether we can work with President Hamid Karzai’s government to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban. But at least as important to whether the country will hold together, and whether a return of ...
All over the world, it is as if, only the Muslims keep trying to assert their religious identity at every stage. Even the world is divided into only two parts. A country can be ‘Dar ul Harb’ (Abode of war) or ‘Dar ul Islam’ (Abode of Islam or peace). How realistic is this? Can Pakistan be called an ...
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Flying with the Afghan Air Force
It will take nearly five years for the Afghan Air Force to become full...
Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent
President Barack Obama trimmed his funding request for the war in Afg...
Dr. Cornel West Calls President Obama a War Criminal
Cornel West: 'They say I'm un-American' The American academic and f...
Afghan Taliban Fighters Turn on Pakistan
“The true face of our enemy has now been revealed,” says one commander...
