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Antiques dating back 1,300 years have been stolen from a museum in western Afghanistan, officials said Saturday, blaming a “powerful gang” for the theft after a suspect was found dead.
The national museum at Herat, the second largest city in...
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Mullah Nasrullah, a Taliban commander, made what has become a routine trek from his guerrilla base in Afghanistan across the jagged peaks into Pakistan last month. His destination: the headquarters of his patron and supplier, the powerful insurgent...
A Spanish government report leaked to the media appears to be the first published assessment that spells out such cooperation. The August 2005 report says Pakistan’s shadowy Inter-Services Intelligence agency helped the Taliban procure roadside...
Recently two big incidents happened in Pakistan. A suicide bomber hit Marriot Hotel in Islamabad’s most secure area, killed 53 people, including Czech Republic ambassador Ivo Zdarek, and wounded more than 200, on September 20, 2008.
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Thomas Johnson, a research professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and an expert on Afghanistan, believes the U.S.-led war now resembles the failed Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, which lasted almost 10 years and...
David Foster Wallace, whose darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories garnered him a large following and made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, was found dead in his California home on Friday, after apparently committing...
An intensifying insurgency in Afghanistan has brought more pressure on Pakistan to go after militants operating out of sanctuaries in remote enclaves on its side of the border. It has also led to a sharp increase in U.S. strikes on militants in...
WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush has secretly approved orders allowing US forces to conduct ground operations in Pakistan without that government’s prior approval, a report said Wednesday citing senior US officials.
Being a working journalist in the area which is badly affected by both terrorism and the war against terrorism, I have seen that today’s irresponsible media is doing nothing but strengthening terrorists and spreading extremism around the world as I...
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Taking the war on terror back to Afghanistan (and most likely Pakistan) is bad for a number of reasons: the perspective of the international Muslim community; the fact that a military solution has not worked thus far, so why keep kicking a dead horse...
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