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This "Grand Jirga"as it is called can actually amend the constitution so if a deal were struck to share power with the Taliban the constitution could be amended to make this legal. However the Taliban have always insisted on foreign...

Before the Taliban were overthrown by the US and Allies together with the Northern Alliance, the latter had occupied most of northern Afghanistan not the Taliban but now the key province of Kunduz is showing a renewed Taliban presence. The...

An excellent idea to look at the US role in Afghan graft. As was the case in Iraq many private contractors have very lucrative contracts that become even more lucrative through corrupt practices. Both Afghan and foreign contractors are no...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Questions raised by India's prime minister about the control of the Pakistani army and Pakistan's aims in Afghanistan are an excuse for delaying the resumption of talks, Pakistan's foreign minister said on Monday. India's Prime Minister Manmohan...

Seven years more is still a lot more both in the number of lives that will be lost and the cost to the US taxpayer. Of course the war supporters will complain about the entitlements that are causing the huge...

President Zardari is fortunate in that even when the amnesty expires he has immunity from prosecution as president! Benazir Bhutto his wife was also on the list but she was assassinated. Many officials in Zardari's government were named in the...

By Adil Khan Student of 6th Class, University Grammar School Muslims celebrate Ei

There were about 15 volunteers at the event, a commercial affair, complete with an event management company assigned to handle the media. DNA spoke to at least six volunteers-cum-guides, trained by committee members of Chabad House, and everyone had his...

Pakistan ’s Geo TV banned from broadcasting from it Studios in Dubai under pressure from Zardari. In direct negation of democracy and freedom of speech Pakistan’s Zardari has succeeded in getting the Dubai Government to ban broadcasting of a political...