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The European Parliament has Called upon the Government of Pakistan to take urgent action to transform its polity to prevent the continuing calls for violent jihad against its neighbours and its partners. In a written declaration on terrorists operating...

The Americans are facing a lot of headaches in Afghanistan. Karzai has not prospered beyond being the Mayor of Kabul. The various warlords in the US propped government are secretly at each other's throats. The other NATO allies are not coughing up...

A vulnerable peace deal is in place in the Swat region of Pakistan's northwest frontier province. For months Pakistani security forces have been fighting Islamic radical groups resulting in hundreds of deaths in the region. As the peace deal is in place..

According to recent Pentagon and an independent website reports, combat deaths are on rise in parts of Afghanistan. American military death toll has been the highest in this month of June and they are still counting. There are no confirmed records of...

The new Pakistani government under the leadership of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will review Pakistan’s role in the US-led war against terror. Deputy US Secretary of State John Negroponte and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher have..

War is an adventure till bullets pass one by. And of course, one has to be on the winning side. The UK Guardian has reported the Mercian Regiment’s encounters with death in a very breezy, devil-may-dare manner. Everything centres on the British and.

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..

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..

The US and NATO forces are trying out a new strategy to fight the Taliban. It is arming the innumerable tribes that exist in Afghanistan. It is likely to be quite successful as tribal feelings run deep in the country. The idea is similar to the village.