The Scariest Little Corner of the World
Jol van Houdt for The New York Times
The Afghan National Police, near the Iran-Afghanistan border.
By LUKE MOGELSON
Published: October 18, 2012 5 Comments
On the southern outskirts of the city Zaranj, where the last derelict...
UN report shows Taliban eradicated opium cultivation
United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) 2001 survey shows that
When Taliban Banned opium production, There was 91 % decrease in total poppy cultivation area
Raw opium production was reduced 94% as compared to 2000...
ایڈمن میں "شاعر مشرق" کے نام سے ایک تھریڈ شروع کرنا چاہا رہا ہوں اگر آپ ذرا سی فراخ دلی کا مظاہر کریں تو اسے اس فورم پر "شاعر مشرق " کے نام سے ہی زندہ رہنے دیا جائے اس تھریڈ سے فلسفہ اقبال :rahm: اور ان کے افکار کو عام کرنا مقصود ہے
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP)...
Taliban kidnap 30 Pakistani boys in Afghanistan: Officials
By AFP
Published: September 2, 2011
Afghanistan shares a disputed 2,400-kilometre border with Pakistan where senior militants are believed to reside. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
KHAR: Taliban...
17 rockets fired in Angoor Adda from Afghanistan
Aggression from Afghan side of the border Cross border continued on Sunday as 17 rockers were fired which landed in Angoor Adda area of South Waziristan Agency (SWA).
According to security sources the rockets were fired from bordering areas of...
PRESIDENT George W. Bush made a personal plea to Silvio Berlusconi to stop Italian forces paying bribes to the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to newly discovered US diplomatic cables.
They show that concerns over alleged Italian payments to insurgents, long denied by Rome, reached the...
The Tet Offensive's parallels to Afghanistan The United States should learn from mistakes it made during the Vietnam War and withdraw from Afghanistan.
The 1968 Tet Offensive opened a 'credibility gap' as Americans began to distrust what they were told about the Vietnam War by officially...
US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024America and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact which would allow thousands of United States troops to remain in the country until at least 2024, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
The agreement would allow not only military trainers to...
The American insensitivity towards civilian deaths over the years seems to be having a strong backlash.
All foreign combat forces are due to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014 [GALLO/GETTY]
Ever since the United States endured defeat in the Vietnam War the American political...
Decades of conflict in Afghanistan have left the country's economy in shambles. The United States' approach to combating drugs in Afghanistan is to eradicate crops and criminalize the cultivators. This approach ignores the lack of economic alternatives that drives many farmers to plant poppy...
دن میں حکومت، رات میں طالبان کا راج
بلال سروری
بی بی سی نیوز
صوبۂ ننگرہار کی وادی میں طالبان کے خلاف آپریشن جاری ہے
وہ گرمیوں کی ایک روشن صبح تھی جب ایک سو ایک ائر بورن ڈویژن کے امریکی فوجی، افغان فوج اور سرحدی محافظوں کے ہمراہ شمالی صوبے ننگرہار کی دلکش وادی کے ایک گاؤں وزیر بازار میں گشت...