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Home >> South Asia Afghanistan Afghanistan: The Rats Abandon the Sinking Ship
Nasir Shansab - 3/30/2008
What I saw on a visit to Afghanistan in February 2008, combined with the decisions some of the coalition countries have made, convinced me that Afghanistan ’s gradual slide towards mayhem has accelerated. This is what I mean: Great Schism: Taliban declared 'out of Islam' by 73 sects
Iqbal Latif - 3/28/2008
The militant group familiarly known as “Taliban” was declared “out of Islam” by 73 different sects of Muslims through an edict (Fatwa) circulated in parts of the narrow tribal strip of Darra Adamkhel. Pakistan Should Talk To Mullah Omar’s Taliban
Ahmed Quraishi - 3/13/2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Why don’t our American friends send a drone across the Pakistan border to kill Baitullah Mehsud, a man seen by many here as an agent of the Indians and their anti-Pakistani friends in the Kabul regime? Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan - A sad ordeal
Iqbal Latif - 3/9/2008
Most recent news of suicide bombings’ tragic harvest that shows Iraq as number 1, Pakistan number 2 and Afghanistan number 3 (In the number of attacks, Afghans are a little ahead but in number deaths Pakistan is second to Iraq): A region that once stifled renaissance is now on the verge of silencing its second chance of enlightenment. Will these lands ever come out of ignominy? Time For Pakistan To Talk To Mullah Omar’s Taliban
Ahmed Quraishi - 3/5/2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Why don’t our American friends send a drone across the Pakistan border to kill Baitullah Mehsud, a man seen by many here as an agent of the Indians and their anti-Pakistani friends in the Kabul regime? Another Afghan Hostage
Ron Coody - 1/29/2008
Through a set of unplanned circumstances my family had the privilege of meeting Cyd Mizell this past Christmas and sharing it with her. Until a few days ago Cyd was just a normal person doing her work in the desperately needy country of Afghanistan with women who greatly appreciated her involvement in their lives. But last Saturday gunmen, still unknown, stopped her Afghan driver Muhammed, taking him and her as hostages. Within hours the story of her abduction hit the front page of papers internationally as officials try to understand what happened and why, and more importantly, how to rescue her and her driver. The Caliphal Emirate of Afghanistan
Warner MacKenzie - 8/30/2007
Perhaps the answer in our confrontation with militant Islam, and the only option that has remained uncanvassed is, as strange as it may seem, to leave the Islamists to their own devices, give them what they want, even to the extent of openly encouraging them to create their utopian Islamic caliphate — which would have eventuated in Afghanistan had the West not intervened to stymie their ambitions in 2001— and let the ensuing chaos, brutality, and misogyny, previously witnessed under the pious Taliban, become a salutary aversive lesson to those in the ummah who crave, and won’t be content till ... Are The Taliban Really Muslims?
Ghazal Omid - 8/9/2007
As a child every Muslim girl learns that she needs to be good, do her prayers five times daily and know that God is more than just a word. He is closer to our body than our veins and He sees and hears everything, as we say in Arabic many times over in our five daily prayers. He said so Himself. Top militant Abdullah Mehsud dead
Iqbal Latif - 7/28/2007
As a young man, Mehsud, now 29, fought for the Taleban against the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. He lost a leg in a landmine explosion a few days before the Taleban took Kabul in September 1996. He surrendered along with several thousand fighters to the forces of Uzbek warlord, Abdul Rashid Dostum, in December 2001 in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, and was later turned over to the US military authorities. The Fundamental Problems Of Afghanistan
Imran Khan - 5/24/2007
Eight Canadian soldiers have been killed since 8th April and Five United Nation's support workers also lost their lives on 17th April in Taliban insurgents' attacks. For last three days Taliban fighters carried out series of coordinated attacks on Afghan security forces. These events clearly reflect the worsening situation in Afghanistan . Taliban have announced "Spring Offensive" against afghan and International forces and these acts can be presumed as a start of it. US endorses the Talibanisation of Afghanistan
Abid Mustafa - 12/26/2006
Lately, relations between Kabul and Islamabad have taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Hamid Karzai has accused Pakistan of spurring the Taliban to carry out attacks against his fledgling government and the NATO troops that defend it. He is not alone in holding Pakistan responsible for the re-emergence of the Taliban. NATO commanders, the New York Times and the International Crisis Group (ISG) have all pointed the finger at Pakistan for fomenting the Pushtoon resistance that shows no sign of abating. Nepal: Putting back the pieces together
Bhuwan Thapaliya - 12/11/2006
The physical scars are noticeable. In fact, they are everywhere in each nook and corners of Nepal: Bullet pocked, shell shattered roof tops, deserted fields, ramshackle government offices, and the fire darkened houses in the villages of Nepal. Even the electricity poles, water pipes, telephone towers, and demolished police posts, shows the bitter sides of conflict that has choked Nepal’s throat. The truth however is this: The world’s largest reconstruction effect cannot overnight erase all evidence of a war that lasted for 13 years in Nepal. Peace Accord With The Taliban?
Iqbal Latif - 9/8/2006
"Those who can win a war well rarely make good peace and those who could make good peace would never have won the war." Making concord is much harder than making confrontation. The agreement with the Utmanzai tribe and local Taliban was finally reached, which has guaranteed that cross-border interference will not be allowed. Britain, with the richest experience in handling Pushtans, has hailed the Waziristan peace deal. Brits have termed the agreement as a future "model" for insurgency-ridden Afghanistan. To understand the roots of extremism in Pakistan, one needs to look at the lawless land... Afghanistan: The Re-Arming Of The Warlords
Antonio Fabrizio - 6/16/2006
A “critical period”1 in military operations, according to Reuters, is expecting Afghanistan this summer, as a large springtime offensive led by Talibans has recently revealed. This one could be the hardest phase for the international forces in Afghanistan since 20012. As a consequence, Afghan government is considering a new strategy to block insurgents, but disquieting foreign analysts and military personnel: the plan is to allow arms to tribal militias. A Taliban Comeback?
Ahmed Rashid - 5/24/2006
As unprecedented Taliban violence sweeps across southern Afghanistan, four players in the region – Afghanistan, Pakistan, the US and NATO – are locked in a tense standoff rather than cooperating to defeat the terrorists. At stake is the future survival of Afghanistan’s moderate government and stability in Pakistan. Death Sentence for change of faith - Violation of Human Rights
Tanveer Jafri - 4/2/2006
Change of faith by an Afghan citizen, Abdul Rahman, who has been released recently by Afghan government on ground of mental disability had become a burning issue in the world. Forty one year old Abdul Rahman remained out of Afghanistan for 16 years during his work with a Christian Missionary Agency. It is taken that during this period, he was so deeply impressed with Christianity that he accepted this religion during his inhabitancy in Germany. Instead of keeping the Quran Sharif with him, Rahman keeps The Holy Bible with him and is accepting it as his sacred book. Rahman's conversion from Isl... Afghan Myths - Interview with Anssi Kullberg
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - 3/19/2005
[The interview was originally conducted in 2001. It is being re-published due to its relevancy once again] This interview was conducted with Anssi Kristian Kullberg in 2001, when he was employed as a researcher for the Legal and Country Intelligence Service, Western and Central Asia Desk, at the Finnish Directorate of Immigration. This interview represents his personal views only and not those of his employer. On Black Tuesday, 11th September, he was in Kyrgyzstan, on his way to the notorious Ferghana Valley, in a reconstruction of the late Finnish Marshal C.G.E. Mannerheim's intelligence expedition to Turkistan and China in 1906-1908. |
