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While Karzai may be agreeable to talks with the Taliban the Taliban leadership has been consistent all along that negotiations are possible only with the withdrawal of foreign troops. Now that Obama has set a date to begin withdrawal talks...

As Cole points out Obama's partner the Afghan government has more problems than just corruption although that is certainly bad enough as many of Karzai's potential cabinet ministers are under investigation! Legislators just collect their pay and do not bother...

Pakistan wants ‘more clarity’ on US President Barack Obama's new Afghan war strategy, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Thursday. ‘We are studying that new policy. We need more clarity on it,’ he said after talks in London with his...

A renowned Islamic scholar in a 150-page Islamic edict ‘fatwa’ issued in Lahore Pakistan today has declared suicide attacks and terrorism as un-Islamic and crimes against humanity. “This edict (fatwa) is being released in three languages across the world. Pakistani...

Although the US President Obama has announced that he will send an extra 30,000 US troops to fight the war in Afghanistan, yet his revised strategy also includes exit strategy as he has indicated that withdrawal of forces will start...

NEW DEHLI : Dec 4 : A landmark act providing for free and compulsory education for children aged 6-14 could cost Rs. 171,000 crore anually to implement but the share of the centre and the states in this has yet...

I wonder if future historians are going to think that our government was made up of stark raving madmen or rejects from a DNA experiment that went horribly wrong. The Saudis have a "rehab" program for terrorists that they started...

Laurie D’Alleva is the creator of the website called Discount Medspa, which had been selling a drug similar to Botox, as well as some other questionable cosmetic treatments, before the FDA found out and the site was recently shut down....