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Events in Pakistan have taken a new, unexpected turn. The Taliban forces in the country's volatile tribal areas have declared a cease-fire with the Pakistani army. The government has denied anything of this sort for obvious reasons, but the...

Afghanistan is one of the havens of opium production and money from the illegal trade is funding insurgency in the region. Even after occupying the country, the US authorities have failed in their battle against the drug lords in the area. The opium..

It’s been six years since the 9/11-terror incident propelled the war on terror. It’s been six years since the US-led NATO forces entered into Afghanistan to avenge the World Trade Center terror attacks. It’s been six years since blood started...

Despite President Musharraf criticizing the West for failing to understand Pakistan's inherent political problems last week during the World Economic Forum in Davos, the United States of America is getting concerned with Islamabad's failure to...

Backed by a government minister, Afghanistan's clerics have issued directives to the country's television broadcasters to take the immensely popular Indian soaps off the screens terming the dramas as un-Islamic. This is a rhetoric often used in...

Who want to live under the clouds of terror, fear and uncertainty of livelihood? Every common man and woman of the countries dealing with the internal or external conflicts (leading to war like situation) originated because of differences in different..

America's mission in Afghanistan is a flop and a fiasco. Afghanistan, a culturally mixed nation has suffered continuous and brutal civil war that included foreign interventions in the form of the 1979, by Soviet nations and in 2001, US invasion in...

Pakistan seems to be the eternal headache to the international community. Internal politics is trapped in uncertainly and is a sham with opposition leaders calling for President General Pervez Musharraf not to run for another term in office....

Even as rumors are galore that U.S. has decided to finally cut on its troops in war-hit Iraq, the NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer called for allies to add on their troop numbers in militancy-marred Afghanistan. Can peace be won by...

Hamid Karzai, the Afghan President is scheduled to visit Camp David on Sunday to meet US president George Bush. Hard pressed by the rising domestic violence and under duress to negotiate the release of 21 South Korean hostages, Karzai is to hold...