TOKYO: A legless Afghan woman pushing herself in a cart appears outside a remote U.S. military outpost after a desperate, dusty firefight, demanding the body of her brother - one of the attackers - to take home for burial. Her presence sparks fierce debate in "The Watch," a novel by Joydeep Roy-Bh...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday sacked four academics from a leading research centre over a book that sparked fury for reportedly insulting the Hazara ethnic group. The head of the Afghanistan Academy of Science and three other scholars were dismissed and referred to the attorney genera...
A carefree birthday party and night out to celebrate the start of the Afghan weekend were reduced to destruction and butchery when Taliban gunmen stormed a lakeside hotel, opening fire indiscriminately on wealthy revelers. Pools of blood, broken glass and hundreds of bullet casings littered the fl...
KABUL: On a warm summer evening, with peacocks strutting amid the patio chairs and moonlight reflecting off the lake, the Spugmay Restaurant is one of the most elegant sanctuaries in Kabul, a place where the war feels almost far enough away. Seven young men changed that with sickening speed Thursd...
On Saturday, June 9th, 2012, the Hon. Jim Karygiannis P.C., M.P. from Scarborough-Agincourt invited the Muslim leadership belonging to GTA mosques and Islamic centers for an open discussion on everything and anything of concern to the GTA Muslim community. The meeting took place from 2 pm to 4 pm at...
The participants from both sides talked about the importance of tolerance, mutual respect. Forty Moslem and Jewish residents of Toronto took part in a very stimulating Dialogue at a local public library recently. This was the third and largest such forum with a noble aim to bring both communities c...
Forty-two years ago I had an unusual experience. I became friendly with a guy named Noam Chomsky. I came to know him as a human being before becoming fully aware of his fame and the impact of his work. I have often thought of this experience since — both because of the insights it gave me into him a...
Were they the least bit interested in exercising any oversight at all into the war that American soldiers are still fighting and dying in -- and that Chinese bond buyers are still providing the cash for -- members of Congress wouldn't have to go very far to find some excellent questions. Congress'...
U.S. and Afghan forces have lost track of hundreds of night-vision goggles used to hunt the Taliban, raising the odds of the high-technology eyewear falling into enemy hands, according to the Pentagon’s inspector general. A lack of adequate supervision of the goggles, which were purchased for the ...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Events this week that raised questions on women’s rights and ethnic tensions have added to long-term concerns about Afghanistan after American-led forces withdraw in 2014 and new elections are held. Over the past two days, women’s rights advocates and others have expressed outr...
Soldiers training to fight in Afghanistan have been sacked in an apparent breach of rules laid down by the Ministry of Defense, it can be disclosed. Two highly experienced company commanders from the 2nd Bn The Yorkshire Regiment have been made compulsorily redundant despite their battalion being ...
Military investigators, called in after the burning of Korans at a U.S. base in Afghanistan earlier this year, have recommended that as many as seven U.S. military service members face administrative punishments for their role in the incident. They are not recommending criminal charges, according to...
Six Afghans were killed in a blast on Monday in Kapisa province, the second lethal attack in less than two weeks, which Afghan specialist Joshua Foust attributed to France’s decision to expedite its withdrawal of troops. After four French soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber on June 9th, Frenc...
KABUL : A congressional committee asked the Pentagon to investigate allegations by senior U.S. officers that an Army commander obstructed an inquiry into reports of abuses at Afghanistan's main military hospital because he feared the news would embarrass President Barack Obama before the 2010 electi...
KABUL: Afghanistan will need $6-7 billion a year in aid over the next decade to help grow the economy, the head of the central bank said on Tuesday, on top of a $4.1 billion bill for security forces to keep the peace once foreign troops leave in 2014. In the run-up to a conference with donors in T...
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...
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US, Germany, Italy vow key Afghan roles post-2014
BRUSSELS: Germany and Italy will join the United States as "lead nati...
Soldier pleads guilty in massacre of 16 Afghans
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash: The American soldier accused of killin...
Coalition Deliberates Afghan Presence
Brussels: The top commander of the U.S.-led military coalition in Afg...
In Afghanistan, grief for a husband who shouldn't have died
Khosh Gombat, Afghanistan: Whenever Bibi Laila heard the all-too-fami...
