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Killing the Cranes

Nick Mills | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Peshawar, Killing the Cranes, Masood Khalili, Cia, Isi, Taliban, Edward Girardet, Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Massoud, Al Qaeda, Books News
Nick Mills

In Edward Girardet's fine new book, Killing the Cranes, there is this damning sentence: "Simply put, it was the U.S. backing for the Islamic extremists in the 1980s that helped produce the current military quagmire in Afghanistan."

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Another Old Friend and a Great Afghan Murdered

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Peshawar, Hadji Kadir, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Afghanistan, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Northern Alliance, Pakistan, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ahmed Shah Massoud, Mujahideen, Pushtunwali, World News
Eric Margolis

A suicide bomber killed my old friend, Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, former president of Afghanistan, last week in Kabul, shaking his war-scarred nation to its core.

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Trick Trike Bomb Causes Deadly Blast In Busy Market

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Peshawar, Pakistan Terrorism, Tricycle Bomb, Pakistan Bombing, Terrorism, Pakistan, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A bomb planted in a child's tricycle exploded outside a shop in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 11 peop...

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Pakistan Car Bomb Strikes Police Building, Kills At Least 4

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Pakistan Car Bomb, Peshawar, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, Karachi, Car Bomb, Taliban, Criminal Investigation Department, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden pickup truck leveled a police building in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing ...

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Pakistani Taliban Detonate Car Bomb Next To U.S. Consulate Vehicles

AP | RIAZ KHAN and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Peshawar, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Osama Bin Laden Death, Abbottabad, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, Osama Bin Laden Killed, Car Bomb, Taliban, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Abbottabad Compound, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Taliban car bomb struck an armored vehicle taking American government employees to the U.S consulate in northwest Pakista...

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Suffer the Little Children

Nick Mills | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peshawar, Time Magazine, Alissa Rubin, Afghanistan, Women's Shelters, Boy Sex Slaves, Child Fighters, Aisha Bibi, Bacha Bazi, Amrc, World News
Nick Mills

In the late 1980s when the Afghan mujaheddin were still fighting the Soviet Union's Red Army, I went to Peshawar, Pakistan, as field director of what ...

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Planting the Seeds

Kathy Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soviets Afghanistan, Kabul, Sigar, Afghanistan, Corruption, Welfare, Karzai, Peshawar, Grassroots, Agriculture, Community, Afghanistan-Soviet War, Soviet Union, Mujahideen, World News
Kathy Kelly

After stories of death and dislocation from the Soviet invasion of 1979, and now from the American occupation, Nur Akbari imagines communities learning to provide for themselves.

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Pakistan Floods Kill At Least 300 People, Trigger Landslides

AP | RIAZ KHAN and ROSHAN MUGHAL | Posted 05.25.2011

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Frid...

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Pakistan Militants Exploit Flooding Chaos, Clash With Authorities

AP | TIM SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Violence, Peshawar, Al Qaeda, Flooding in Pakistan, Islamabad, Flooding, Pakistan, Floods, Taliban, Pakistani Floods, Natural Disasters, Militants, World News

SHIKARPUR, Pakistan — The water came in the morning, quietly sweeping across the rice paddies and into the village. Within hours, it was as high...

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US Consulate Attack In Peshawar: 3 Explosions, Several Killed In Pakistan Assault

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Attack, Afghanistan, Bomb, Pakistan, Khost, Terrorism, US Consulate, Taliban, Rocket Launcher, US, Dir Province, Islamabad, Dawn, Peshawar, Cia, Saddar, Qari, Afpak, Bombing, Rockets, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Islamist militants unleashed a car bomb and grenade attack against a U.S. consulate in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, kil...

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Transgender Wedding Broken Up By Pakistani Police

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Police in northwestern Pakistan broke up an apparent wedding between a businessman and his transgender bride, saying Tuesda...

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In Harsh Times, Pakistanis Seek Comfort On Facebook

Pia Sawhney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lahore, Peshawar, Internet, Terrorism, Pakistan, Karachi, Karachi-Pakistan, Lahore Attack, Facebook, Peshawar Pakistan, Afpak, World News
Pia Sawhney

While the nation's news media has been prohibited from reporting extensively on military exercises in Swat and Buner districts, on Facebook, questions and concerns crop up swiftly.

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Pakistan Courthouse Bombing Kills 16 In Peshawar

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Peshawar, Pakistan Army, Al Qaida, Afghanistan, Suicide Bombing, Pakistan, North West Frontier Province, Taliban, South Waziristan, Zardari, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A blast early Friday killed two police offers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwe...

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13 Killed In Latest Pakistan Bomb

AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peshawar, Peshawar Bombing, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Peshawar Pakistan, Taliban, Bombing, Peshawar-Pakistan, Al Qaeda, World News

ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani military is setting its sights on the Taliban's remote sanctuary after nearly two weeks of big bombings across the cou...

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Why Osama Is Winning

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peshawar, Al Qaida, Afghanistan, Pakistan, George W. Bush, 9/11, Taliban, Mikhail Gorbachev, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Abdullah Azzam, World News
Eric Margolis

Back in 1986, I was covering the anti-Soviet war in then almost unknown Afghanistan. There I met Abdullah Azzam, the teacher and spiritual mentor of a young Saudi named Osama bin Laden.

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Clinton In Pakistan: "We Are Turning The Page" On Involvement After 8 Years Of Bush

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD — Offering sympathy for victims of Wednesday's terrorist bombing, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton praised Pakistan's of...

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Blast At Spy Agency In NW Pakistan Kills Seven

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peshawar, Jihad, Peshawar Bombing, Terrorism, Pakistan, Taliban, South Waziristan, Islamists, Al Qaeda, World News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan's main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and st...

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Peshawar Police Station Hit By Double Blasts, 11 Killed

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peshawar, Peshawar Police, Pakistan, Pakistan Police, Pakistan Female Suicide Bomber, Female Suicide Bombers, Foreign Affairs, Home News

At least 11 people have died in two explosions near a police office in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, police said. The bombs were detonated at an in...

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Pakistan: Suicide Bomber Kills 3 Near Peshawar Press Club

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bombing that killed three people and wounded 17 outside a press club in the northwestern city of Peshawar has und...

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Peshawar: Car Bomb Kills 91 As Clinton Visits Capital

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A car bomb struck a busy market in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 100 people - mostly women and children - as ...

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View from Pakistan: Today's Blast

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swat, Pakistan Suicide Bombing, War on Terror, Northwestern Frontier Province, Pakistan, Checkpoints, Proxy War, Fata, Baluchistan, Punjab, British, International Islamic University, Tribal Areas, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Iran, Rawalpindi, South Waziristan, Sindh, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Afghanistan, India, Schools, Hillary Clinton, Nwfp, Universities, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

Pakistani children may be enjoying the break, but most of them know exactly why they can't go to school. I sit stiff as one boy looks up from his video game to tell me the school buses might not be safe right now.

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Peshawar Bomber Kills 49 Near Crowded Market, Pakistan's Deadliest Attack In 6 Months

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — (AP) A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle near a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 49 people and p...

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Girls School Blown Up By Militants In Pakistan

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Suspected Islamist militants blew up a girls school close to the main city in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said...

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A Modest Proposal for Garrisoned Lands

Chalmers Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peshawar, Afghanistan, Miliary Base, Pakistan, State Department, World News
Chalmers Johnson

While it may be comforting for State Department employees to know that they have some protection, they will now be part of an in-your-face American imperial presence.

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Hashoo Bombers Strike Again

Derek Henry Flood | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: Takfirism, Pc Hotel Blast, Aga Khan, Ismaili, Afpak, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Serena Hotel, Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Benazir Bhutto, Terrorism, Islamabad Marriott, World News
Derek Henry Flood

People across the region who depend on the Ismaili establishment for employment, sustenance and remittances have suffered enormously from the Taleban's unforgiving insurgency.

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