Hamid Karzai's visit to the US on Monday lays bare the Afghan president's strengths and weaknesses. He still enjoys US backing, but he is worried about troop withdrawals, elections, Pakistan and the Taliban. On his trip abroad this week, Afghan President Hamid Karzai will be spending at least a fe...
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai will discuss matters of war, including future U.S. troop levels and Afghanistan's army, when they meet on Friday, but matters of peace may be the most delicate item on their long agenda. After nearly 10 months in limbo,...
ARGHANDAB DISTRICT, Afghanistan: Chief of Police Niaz Mohammad had good news for his American military guests here: Security was improving in this crucial district bordering the southern city of Kandahar, and Taliban insurgents were no longer gathering in large numbers to stage attacks. But Mr. Mo...
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has sketched out plans for a scaled-back presence in Afghanistan, after the Obama administration pressed for options that would leave fewer troops in the country after 2014 than defense officials have proposed. New Pentagon options would leave roughly 3,000, 6,000 or 9,000...
Lauren Booth, broadcaster and journalist, is former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law, who converted to Islam in 2010. Here below is her journey to Islam and the heart-warming reaction of her family in this translated version of a recent interview:I thank Allah for giving me the chan...
Trooper Robert Griffiths, 24, who served in 1st the Queen's Dragoon Guards, was on leave when his body was found A soldier who survived a roadside bomb blast while driving a light tank in Afghanistan has been found hanged while at home on leave. Trooper Robert Griffiths, 24, was one of three soldie...
The United States could keep between 6,000 and 15,000 troops in Afghanistan after the official 2014 NATO withdrawal, say officials familiar with plans submitted to the Pentagon by the current U.S. commander in that country, Gen. John Allen. Allen was tasked with developing an overarching plan for ...
One of the major foreign policy issues facing President Barack Obama during his second term in office will be winding down the conflict in Afghanistan, America’s longest war. American military forces have been in that country for more than 11 years, longer than the Soviet presence in the 1980s [mo...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai will be in Washington next week to meet with President Obama. Top of the agenda: deciding whether US troops should stay beyond 2014 – and how many. WASHINGTON: With Afghan President Hamid Karzai set to arrive for a meeting at the White House next week, the Obama admini...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Just ahead of a trip to Washington by President Hamid Karzai, the Afghan government released 80 detainees on Friday, part of a continuing effort to assert its sovereignty over the contentious issue of how prisoners are handled. American officials have long complained that the A...
There were times when Muslim journalists used their writings and Pen to defend the Ummat e Rasul (sm) and used it for Jihad and freedom of nation. They were true Mujahideen who fought with pen and died like heroes. Lets salute the first martyred journalist in the Independence movement against the B...
There’s something wafting in the air in Afghanistan, and for once it’s not the smell of detritus, diesel or cordite. People – rivals, even enemies -- are talking about peace. Not just talks about talks – those have been going on – and off – for a couple of years now. But serious, genuine moves towar...
Here is a reminder that there is still fighting going on in a part of Afghanistan that was deemed ready to be transitioned to the Afghan Army for security purposes almost a year ago. In a new U.S Army Corps of Engineers solicitation to complete construction of an Afghan National Army, Corps Suppor...
An emerging middle class exposed to beauty trends from India and Iran seeks reshaped noses and eyelids, as well as more involved procedures. KABUL, Afghanistan: Shoqofa never liked her nose. She thought it was too wide. Her father told her not to worry; it was given to her by Allah. But when th...
Kandahar: “I am here in Kandahar on a short vacation,” says the young man, about 27, who we will call Mullah Kalam. His beard is trimmed neat; he is wearing a black leather jacket and a striped beige turban. Kalam has been a student for five years at a religious seminary across the border in Chaman,...
WASHINGTON: Gen. John R. Allen, the senior American commander in Afghanistan, has submitted military options to the Pentagon that would keep 6,000 to 20,000 American troops in Afghanistan after 2014, defense officials said on Wednesday. General Allen offered Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta three...
I was once walking along a narrow but busy street in Cairo when ahead of me was a donkey-cart laden with handmade pottery and clay utensils. It was owned by an old man who had been walking slowly beside it, and trying to sell whatever he could to make an income. He walked with hunched-shoulders, a t...
Drones on domestic surveillance duties are already deployed by police and corporations. In time, they will likely be weaponised By 2020, it is estimated that as many as 30,000 drones will be in use in US domestic airspace. People often ask me, in terms of my argument about "ten steps" that...
An Afghan warlord has launched a scathing attack on Prince Harry – describing the Royal as a ‘jackal’ who is only interested in killing ‘innocent Afghans while he is drunk’. One of the world’s most wanted men has predicted that Afghanistan will collapse into murderous civil war after NATO troops w...
WASHINGTON: The young president who ascended to office as a change agent decides to end the costly and unpopular war in Afghanistan. He seeks an exit with honor by pledging long-term financial support to allies in Kabul, while urging reconciliation with the insurgency. But some senior advisers lobby...
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