It is official now. The US and NATO are losing ground in Afghanistan. America's top intelligence official has admitted that security in Afghanistan is 'deteriorating' and President Hamid Karzai's government controls less than a third of the...
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Despite of the ‘war against terror’ being the moot cause for invading Afghanistan in 2002 by the United States of America and its NATO allies, amongst the litany of criticisms against the Taliban was the social injustice carried out on the women...
Anti-Musharraf forces have won the elections in Pakistan. Both Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif have been at the receiving end of Musharraf's political games. One was thrown into prison, the other was exiled. One can hardly blame them if they now...
The US military base at Okinawa in Japan is proving to be a great threat to the local people of the island. The US Marines have become a security threat to the residents of the region. In a recent incident of misdemeanor, a US Marine Tyrone Hadnott...
It is pretty much clear as to who is going to come to power in Pakistan. It is going to be the PPP-PML(Nawaz) combine. The deputy chief of PPP, Makhdoom Amin Fahim will be probably the new Premier as he is experienced. But the real power will lie in...
The result of much awaited elections in Pakistan are about to be revealed and the supporters of Pakistan Peoples Party whose leader, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated on Dec. 27, and the Pakistan Muslim League-N, the faction led by Nawaz Sharif have...
The new face of violence in Afghanistan seems to be the suicide bombers who have become a gruesome reality in the region which has constantly battled long for stability and levelling. One of the recent features that the desperate government and the...
The statement by Michael Semple, a UN official arrested by the Afghan government on Christmas Day last year, brings to the fore many vital aspects of the conflict in Afghanistan.
First and foremost is that there are many Afghan leaders, not only in...
Pakistani President Parvez Musharraf faces an unprecedented opposition in his country ahead of the National Assembly elections on Monday. Although this is not a Presidential election, President Musharraf's fate probably rests on the results of the...
Following Steven Spielberg's withdrawal as an artistic adviser from the Beijing Olympics yesterday, China is now being pressurized by the international community to use its influence on ally Sudan to stop atrocities in the Darfur region. This...
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has announced that parliament should be dissolved in order to pave the way for the 11th general elections. At a press conference, PM announced the King's approval to dissolve the parliament with...
Is democracy the final solution that the west has to offer to the developing countries as some sort of a broad-spectrum antibiotic for alleviating a myriad of social, political and economical problems and escalating development? While democratic ideals...
In a latest embarassing spat between the West and the Hamid Karzai government in Kabul, the United States has warned the Afghan government of paralysing international military and civilian operations by cracking down on private security guards...
East Timor's independence from a brutal Indonesian rule six years ago was considered to be a major triumph for the United Nations, yet the small country on the vicinity of Australia has struggled to come to terms with being a free nation. The major...
Is Myanmar heading towards democracy? On last Saturday, the country’s military regime has announced that it would ask voters to approve a new constitution in May that will allow the country to go for democratic elections in 2010. Last October the...
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