KABUL: Afghanistan must make improving its power infrastructure a top priority to exploit vast mineral deposits and attract more foreign investors, the head of the World Bank said Thursday. Kabul hopes Chinese and Indian investments in iron ore and copper mining will help offset a dip in its econo...
Canada spent about $10 million on security in Afghanistan at its $50-million Dahla dam project, where private security contractors were linked to allegations of corruption and involved in an armed standoff with Canadian security officials. One of Canada’s signature projects in Afghanistan, the Dah...
Afghanistan's ex-spy chief has risked sparking another war of words by making a series of allegations against Pakistan. Amrullah Saleh, former director of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), on March 12 accused Pakistan of treating Afghanistan as a "sub-nation." "Pakistan has monopolized...
MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan :The Afghan policeman manning a checkpoint glances at the snow-covered mountains that are home to Taliban fighters and predicts what would happen if elite U.S. forces leave Wardak province, seen as the gateway to the capital of Kabul. "The Taliban will take over in one day,...
KABUL: A crack in the once solid U.S.- Afghanistan relations appeared after Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused the United States of holding secret talks with the Taliban outside Afghanistan, a claim sharply rebuffed by Washington as baseless. On Sunday, President Karzai categorically said that ...
President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday continued his criticism of US intentions in Afghanistan with a pointed speech claiming the Americans are eyeing off Afghan mines and warned that now the Afghan government knows. "Americans have asked Afghans to give them Afghanistan's mining contracts, and I said ...
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai repeated in a speech on Tuesday his provocative charge that the Taliban and the U.S. are conniving to perpetuate instability, ignoring a U.S. rebuttal in a deepening crisis in bilateral relations. Mr. Karzai said on Sunday that the Taliban were killing Afghan c...
A former State Department insider has written a blistering account of the Obama administration’s missteps in Afghanistan. But is he right? Former State Department Advisor Vali Nasr has set Washington abuzz with his gloves-off denunciation of the Obama administration's conduct of foreign policy, in ...
KABUL, Afghanistan: The longest shadow in Afghan politics is cast by a traffic post that used to stand in Ariana Square outside the presidential palace: the Taliban hanged Najibullah, the last president of the Communist government, from it shortly after they marched into Kabul in 1996. That histor...
WASHINGTON: The troubled U.S. alliance with Afghan President Hamid Karzai hit a new low with his startling accusation that America is colluding with Taliban insurgents to keep Afghanistan weak. But with President Barack Obama committed to two more years of U.S. combat, Karzai appears to believe he c...
MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan: An Afghan policeman gunned down two U.S. Special Forces on Monday in Wardak province, less than 24 hours after President Hamid Karzai’s deadline expired for them to leave the area where residents have grown increasingly hostile toward the Americans. Despite Karzai’s orde...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan : A daylight raid on one of Afghanistan's top universities over the weekend is focusing attention on the secretive paramilitary unit that allegedly carried it out—a group of Afghan operatives founded with the input of President Hamid Karzai and mentored by the U.S. Central Inte...
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan: On the surface, the Gul sisters seemed to have it all: they were young, beautiful, educated and well off, testing the bounds of conservative Afghan traditions with fitted jeans, makeup and cellphones. But Nabila Gul, 17, a bright and spunky high school student, pushed ...
The $77 billion solar-energy industry is forecast to expand the most since 2011, as China becomes the biggest market for the first time and drives annual global installations to a record.New generation capacity will rise about 14 percent this year to 34.1 gigawatts, equal to about eight atomic react...
Environmental group's report on pollution in the country warns emissions may cause 20m new asthma cases a year India's breakneck pace of industrialization is causing a public health crisis with 80-120,000 premature deaths and 20m new asthma cases a year due to air pollution from coal power plants, ...
NBC News Correspondent Kerry Sanders recently returned from Antarctica, where he chronicled the dramatic changes in the world's last wilderness. ANTARCTIC PENINSULA: There are serious changes taking place here at the bottom of the world. Increasingly, experts say, the ice is disappearing at a dist...
SOLD: $29 Million This crumbling home from the British Raj, in New Delhi’s most prestigious section, commanded top dollar in a public auction. NEW DELHI: The fading bungalow at 38 Amrita Shergil Marg does not immediately shout real estate bling. There is no tennis court, no infinity pool, no Sub-Ze...
QALAT, Afghanistan: Improvised bombs have killed more American troops in Afghanistan than anything else since the war here began 11 years ago, and they’ll remain a favored insurgent weapon against Afghan soldiers, police and civilians after U.S. forces end their combat mission next year. That’s wh...
Analysis: As Karzai insinuates Washington-Taliban collusion, fault lines deepen in an already troubled relationship. BUZZARDS BAY, Mass: Afghan President Hamid Karzai certainly knows how to ruin a party. As newly anointed US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made his maiden voyage to Kabul last week, A...
Afghan President's Claim Taliban Kill 'in Service to America' Clouds Hagel Visit KABUL: America's fraught ties with Afghanistan suffered a jarring blow Sunday, when Afghan President Hamid Karzai said during a visit by the new U.S. defense secretary that the Taliban were killing Afghan civilians "in...
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