Twenty years ago, a 12-year-old girl took the podium at the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro and told a room full of world leaders that they were failing her."Coming here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am fighting for my future. Losing my future is not like losing ...
The Shore Plaza East apartments have a stunning skyline view of downtown Boston across the harbor: Waves lap at the foot of the eight-story building; sailboats carve foam trails in the water. These could be million-dollar condos. But, buffeted by winds and the threat of storm-water flooding, these a...
“Intellectual integrity made it quite impossible for me to accept the myths and dogmas of even very great scientists, more particularly of the belligerent and so-called advanced nations. Indeed, those intellectuals who accepted them were abdicating their functions for the joy of feeling themselves a...
In Pakistan a mosque is not the house of God, but the house of a sectarian God. Although Muslim sects across the world have their own separate mosques for the reasons of Imamat, procedure and methodology of prayers, no one is ever stopped from entering a place of worship or called a Kafir inside one...
Who we are? Where do we come from? What are we doing on this planet? Where do we go once we die? All these are questions that remain part of the eternal human quest.In traditional societies, the answers to these questions are provided by religion. In the Islamic tradition, Sufism offers a detailed u...
Why geography -- unfortunately -- is destiny for South Asia's troubled heartland. Perversity characterizes Pakistan. Only the worst African hellholes, Afghanistan, Haiti, Yemen, and Iraq rank higher on this year's Failed States Index. The country is run by a military obsessed with -- and, for decad...
The U.S. military is rolling out a new rest and recuperation program for troops fighting in Afghanistan. But don’t pack your bags for a nice long break on a sunny beach or a visit home — you won’t be leaving Afghanistan under the “rest-in-place” program. R&R sites are being established within brig...
Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan's key opium producing region has declined 40% over the past four years as coalition and government forces have secured key towns and villages and the Afghan government has ramped up eradication. This year farmers grew poppy on about 143,000 acres in Helmand provinc...
Members of parliament face allegations of skipping work and overstepping their powers. Afghanistan: Afghans have long complained about their elected representatives, but now there are voices in both parliament and government accusing some politicians of prolonged absence from work and other abuses....
Michael Krepon is co-founder of the Stimson Center, a nonprofit nonpartisan policy institution, and is director of its South Asia program. Afghanistan’s future matters much more to Pakistan than to the United States. This elemental truth is forgotten in U.S. deliberations about how best to leverag...
Solidarity Party's ban comes after it accused various Afghan leaders of war crimes and as western troops prepare to withdraw Kabul: Afghanistan has suspended a political party for the first time since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, a ban diplomat and activists say is a worrying sign freedoms in t...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghanistan and regional heavyweights agreed Thursday to work together to fight terrorism and drug-trafficking and pursue economic development — a formidable agenda in a neighborhood fraught with power struggles and rivalries. The Afghan government played host to 14 other count...
The suo motu notice, issued by the Chief Justice around midnight (in panic?) to control damage from the whispering campaign about his son, has fizzled out. It had to when there was no complainant, no defendant, not even an FIR. The court could do nothing more than ask the attorney general for “thoro...
KABUL: A June 1 attack on a U.S. outpost near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border was much worse than originally disclosed by the military as insurgents pounded the base with a truck bomb, killing two Americans and seriously wounding about three dozen troops, officials acknowledged Saturday. The blast...
KABUL: Attired in western dress and keenly looking at a billboard to choose his favorite film, Fazal Rahman said he is a fan to Indian movies. "Indian movie is a movie of love, passion and joy. We have the right to enjoy life," Rahman, 17, said behind a cinema wall in the Afghan capital Kabul. "...
After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile. Drone aircraft spy on and attack terrorists with no pilot in harm's way. Small teams of special operations troops quietly train and advise foreign forces. Viruses sent from...
DELARAM, Afghanistan: Afghan military leaders are sending more of their soldiers to southwest Afghanistan to bolster their presence in a region known as a hotbed for insurgent activity. Afghan National Army Brig. Gen. Abdul Wasea, commanding general, 2nd Brigade, 215th Corps, welcomed nearly 500 s...
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, says James Astill. The retreating ice offers access to precious minerals and new sea lanes—but also carries grave dangersSTANDING ON THE Greenland ice cap, it is obvious why restless modern man so reveres wild places. Everywhere you look...
KABUL, Afghanistan: President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan issued an impassioned call for the end of international airstrikes in his country on Tuesday, branding them as an “illegitimate use of force” and saying that the need to protect civilian life demanded a complete halt to those operations, even...
MES AYNAK, Afghanistan: Mullah Mira Jan, a tribal elder in the dry hills south of Kabul, was an early supporter of Afghanistan's push to develop its mining industry and bring new wealth to one of the world's poorest countries. He and his extended family accepted $10,000 in 2009 to move and make way ...
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A cooler century? Wait and see
New research suggesting that the Earth may be warming a little more s...
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Noam Chomsky: Obama Was Willing to Start Nuclear War to Kill bin Laden
"Raw Story" - MIT Professor Noam Chomsky criticized the killing of al...
