Mr. Rashid's theory reflects a more abysmal picture for the future of Afghanistan. Does it mean that all educated Afghans will now have to reach out to the triumphant Taliban (in their office in Qatar) to attain an approval certificate of for their work?
AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 03.03.2012
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Prominent al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban fighters asked Pakistani militants in a pair of rare meetings to set aside th...
AP | ASHRAF KHAN | Posted 11.18.2011
KARACHI, Pakistan — A large bomb exploded Monday outside the home of a senior police officer tasked with cracking down on the Taliban and other ...
Posted 09.17.2011
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban released a video Monday showing fighters executing 16 Pakistani tribal policemen in a hail of gunfire who were captured...
AP | ADIL JAWAD | Posted 07.22.2011
KARACHI, Pakistan — Islamist militants stormed a naval base in the Pakistani city of Karachi late Sunday, destroying a U.S.-supplied surveillanc...
The New York Times | CARLOTTA GALL | Posted 06.01.2011
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan Taliban are showing signs of increasing strain after a number of killings, arrests and internal disputes that have re...
Shahid Mahmood | Posted 05.25.2011
Policies of appeasement allow military contractors a free license to patrol and kill in Pakistan -- in the case of Raymond Davis, the ability to fire on his assailants 10 times.
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- A top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is contradicting comments by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen on whether a military o...
Fahad Faruqui | Posted 05.25.2011
Islam is a life-affirming religion and a religion of love that has no space for those of "God's warriors" who are committed to death. Still, within the last 24 hours, at least six were killed in an explosion at a Sufi shrine in Pakistan.
Beenish Ahmed | Posted 05.25.2011
Has the world grown weary of opening its wallets to natural disasters? Or is Pakistan a special case, one mired in a complexity that works against the generosity of potential donors?
AP | MIRWAIS KHAN and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL, Afghanistan — Four days after three British troops were slain at their base in the middle of the night, it remains unclear what motivated...
Ehsan Azari Stanizai | Posted 05.25.2011
My Life With the Taliban is a must-reading for those American policymakers who want to understand one of the most controversial religious movements in modern times.
Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011
The President made diplomacy the theme of the national security strategy he laid out at West Point last month. But a brave new world grounded in multilateralism is still on the far horizon.
AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 05.25.2011
KABUL — The arrests of top Taliban figures in Pakistan abruptly halted secret U.N. contacts with the insurgency at a time when the efforts were ...
AP | ROHAN SULLIVAN and RASOOL DAWAR | Posted 05.25.2011
ISLAMABAD — A top Taliban leader picked up in Pakistan as part of a recent crackdown on insurgents will be handed over to Afghanistan, an Afghan...
Malou Innocent | Posted 05.25.2011
It is important to recognize that the apprehension of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar wasn't a result of military force, but of intelligence gathering by the military and CIA, in close cooperation with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence.
cnn.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead, three Taliban sources said Tuesday....
AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011
ISLAMABAD — Taliban militants flog two men and a teenage boy in a video that has emerged from Pakistan's tribal belt along the Afghan border, sh...
AP | RASOOL DAWAR | Posted 05.25.2011
MIR ALI, Pakistan — The Pakistani Taliban refused Tuesday to provide proof their leader survived a U.S. missile attack, just one day after promi...
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 05.25.2011
This large scale experiment in global intervention is pretty much in the crapper and the so called "managers" are going straight back to what they know - tossing money at the problem.
AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 05.25.2011
ISLAMABAD — The United States has unleashed an unprecedented number of missile attacks by unmanned drones in northwest Pakistan over the last tw...
wowOwow | Sara Davidson | Posted 05.25.2011
I thought I knew what we should do in Afghanistan, until I flew to the country with a group of eight women and one man organized by Code Pink. This is...
nytimes.com | PETER BAKER and ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama's national security team is moving to reframe its war strategy by emphasizing the campaign against Al Qaeda in Pakistan while arguing ...
Saad Khan | Posted 05.25.2011
There is practically no Islamic country where people are allowed to open their minds and hearts in public. Most extremists use this lack of freedom of speech to recruit from the Muslim World.
AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 05.25.2011
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani soldiers attacked militant bases in the main al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border Satu...
Malik Siraj Akbar | Posted 04.11.2012