Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Mon Dec 07 14:20:13 -0800 2009
| political-news
I’m grateful to follow in the footsteps of my esteemed colleagues, Secretary Gates and General Jones, with whom I have the privilege of working closely on a daily basis on the range of issues facing our country. I want to...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Mon Dec 07 14:11:30 -0800 2009
| political-news
The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on counternarcotics programs in Afghanistan, with little success. Afghanistan produces more than 90 percent of the world's supply of heroin, and earnings from the drug trade help fuel the country's insurgency. Helmand province...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Mon Dec 07 14:01:48 -0800 2009
| political-news
Leader of the Opposition Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, on Monday opening the debate on the Balochistan Package, advised the government and all major political stakeholders to put aside all of their political interests and personal gains and should join hands...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Mon Dec 07 13:59:52 -0800 2009
| travel-news
The Afghan government says police have killed a local Taliban commander involved in kidnapping road construction workers and planting bombs in a northern district. The Interior Ministry says in a Monday statement a group of militants attacked a police convoy...
Taliban hideout in eastern Afghanistan close to the Pakistani border on Monday...Feared militant commander, Muhammad Akbar, was among those killed in the air raid, Gen. Coordination Office in Kunar, told the Afghan news agency Pajhwok. Taliban bunkers and defensive positions...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Sun Dec 06 23:53:27 -0800 2009
| political-news
Afghanistan is failing to protect its women from violence and discrimination, and denies them access to justice and education, a human rights group charges. The Afghan government's failure to find and prosecute killers of prominent women has given license to...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Mon Dec 07 07:45:39 -0800 2009
| disasters
Government ministers were today accused of lying in an attempt to cover up Britain's role in the so-called extraordinary rendition of two men captured in Iraq and sent to Afghanistan for interrogation. Both men have been detained without trial or...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Mon Dec 07 14:31:33 -0800 2009
| travel-news
The soldier, from 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, was killed as a result of small arms fire in the Nad-e Ali area, in central Helmand Province, the MoD said in a statement on Monday. His death brings to 237...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Mon Dec 07 13:33:33 -0800 2009
| political-news
If there is no inescapable logic to the idea that a faster surge will enable a swifter withdrawal, then — the Times would have its readers believe — we shouldn’t worry our little heads about that because our fabulously diligent...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Mon Dec 07 14:01:01 -0800 2009
| travel-news
The Operation Commander in Maidan, Col Nadeem Mirza, said on Monday that security forces had killed 692 militants so far in the area and cleared it of the rebels. He was briefing newsmen on Maidan operation at the Dir Scouts’...
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