By: Imad | 2010-03-11 | Politics Do we really know who are they ? Does any anybody ever tried to figure out whose responsible for their birth? They are the ones who claimed responsibility of recent street firing in New york which claimed the lives of 13 people and 26 people got hurt . I know we have a habit Of forgetting the past very easily we only know what ever is happening in the present. read more
By: Farman Nawaz | 2011-07-03 | Politics The real hero is the one whose death is mourned for decades. For instance the entire Pakistan was in shock for three days when Benazir Bhuto was assassinated in Rawalpindi. But it is a fact that very few people were discussing the death of Osama Bin Laden on May 4, the third day of his death. Osama Bin Laden was considered a person who ruled the hearts of religious sects for almost two decades but he is now forgotten in two days. This is the difference between the genuine hero and a made-up he read more
By: tishbite | 2010-10-01 | Politics There is a process underway in Afghanistan to procure peace. It can work but the process will be a long drawn out one. read more
By: Farman Nawaz | 2010-03-26 | News and society Al-Qaeda is still strong enough like the past to even the score. Taliban are thrown out and their government is put to an end but still they are strong enough to sit on table for negotiations. Even America is begging Taliban to distance themselves from Al-Qaeda. It sounds very awkward when we hear that reconciliation and compromise is the outcome of 9 years American policies. read more
By: Farman Nawaz | 2010-10-12 | Politics This reconciliation process has two possibilities. 1. The negotiations are successful and Taliban creates space for them in the new system of Afghanistan. 2. The negotiations fail and there is no solution for sharing the government. read more
By: Aidan Maconachy | 2010-04-04 | News and society Taliban 'recruiters' have been showing up in madrassas in Pakistan and educating children in the arts of terrorism. This includes showing the children videos of suicide attacks and teaching them how to drive cars and motorcycles. read more
By: M.G. Singh | 2010-12-01 | History The US is involved in a difficult war in Afghanistan.A defeat here could well be the setting sun on the US as a world power read more
By: Jerome Grossman | 2010-04-03 | Politics It is difficult, even impossible, to accept President Obama's "New strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan" as described by him in a formal speech on March 27. It fails by imperial and non-imperial standards. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-05-14 | News and society At least 80 people were killed on Friday morning (April 13, 2011) at a paramilitary training center in northwestern Pakistan by two suicide bombers in an Osama bin Laden revenge attack. The Pakistan Taliban immediately claimed responsibility. "This was the first revenge for Osama's martyrdom. Wait for bigger attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said afterwards. It is considered as the bloodiest attack since U.S. special forces killed Osama bin Laden in Quetta, Pakistan on May 2, 2011. The dead explosions occurred when young recruits wearing civilian clothes at the Frontier Constabulary training site boarded buses and coaches to go home on leave after their course. Twelve vehicles and twenty shops were reportedly damaged in the blasts. read more
By: tishbite | 2010-11-03 | Politics The proper wearing of scented oil fragrances is an art. You need to experiment to come up with the combination which works best for you. read more
By: Farman Nawaz | 2010-10-18 | Politics We should not forget that 30 years back the war in Afghanistan did not take place because Afghans were fed up of each other but rather it was a tangle between two supper powers. It hurts to see the word "Jihad" for that war in the constitution of Afghanistan. And now after 9/11 when US entered this part of the world again it was not the reason that Afghans were waiting for US to divide Afghanistan but US claimed the presence of terrorist bases in Afghanistan. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-10-28 | Society The days after the U.S terrorist 9/11 attacks in 2001, American journalist Kate Brooks went to Aghanistan and Pakistan to cover the collapse of the Taliban. Here are the images of the Afghan people whom she met during her journey. read more
By: Steve Herman | 2010-01-28 | News and society Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to tell President Barack Obama there is no difference between good and bad Taliban when they meet this week on the G20 sidelines. Indian Prime Minister read more