AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN
Militant wood
President Hamid Karzai's odd outburst in March, in which he threatened to quit the government and join the Taliban, was no doubt a momentary
In the labyrinthine corridors of 'Af-Pak' politics, an arrest is not an arrest and a crackdown is not a crackdown. Currently, Afghanistan and Pakistan are engaged in
Daily Times, 9 March 2010
The defection of a large number of commanders and fighters of the Hizb-i-Islami to the Karzai government is a significant development and the
On the North Waziristan town of Mir Ali, a Dawar tribesman is in the midst of shifting his family to a new home. The reason: he has just discovered local
On 1 November, former Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah withdrew from Afghanistan´s contentious second round of polling, which would have pitted him against incumbent President Hamid Karzai for a
The season's new fashion is in, and this fall, in Afghanistan, it is corruption. Indeed, corruption has become the issue on which the entire international community has descended
Mid-summer afternoons in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, feel like someone has hosed the air with hot steam. Standing outside the roof of a British Army patrol
