Back to the warlordsJOHN CHERIANWith the remnants of Al Qaeda and the Taliban hitting at will, the Hamid Karzai government in Afghanistan is floundering.
Back to the warlordsJOHN CHERIANWith the remnants of Al Qaeda and the Taliban hitting at will, the Hamid Karzai government in Afghanistan is floundering.
Afghanistan The narco-politics of AfghanistanROMESH BHATTACHARJIThe West's indifference towards opium cultivation in Afghanistan has ensured that narcotics, with their money-earning potential, will continue to play
Afghanistan Vandalised AfghanistanOSMUND BOPEARACHCHIThe destruction of Afghanistan's cultural treasures during the period of the civil war in looting and illegal excavations has caused a huge loss of hu
Testing timesB.MURALIDHAR REDDY in IslamabadThe Bonn accord can be a master plan for peace as it offers Afghans three chances to establish a working government.
An Afghan transitionJOHN CHERIANThe Bush administration's candidate, Hamid Karzai, is the head of the Afghan government. But it has been no cake-walk.
When the mullahs fell silentSADAQAT JAN in IslamabadWHEN representatives of the international media camped in Islamabad for a ring-side view of the developments in Afghanistan in the wake of the Septemb
Afghan TragedyMARC W. HEROLDA TACIT agreement operates between the Obama administration, the United States corporate media, most progressive U.S. liberals, and the United Nations
Afghanistan Technology spectacles mask weaknessesMARC W. HEROLDAbstract: Future U.S. wars in the Third World will involve massive use of drones to police the territory, employment of local satrap1 forces (such as
Kunduz massacreMARC W. HEROLDTHE magic cut-off is revealed to be about 30 to 40. Such revealed facts tell far more than mere words. Some years ago, Human Rights Watchs Marc Garlas
Afghanistan Terror, U.S. styleMARC W. HEROLDNothing has changed for us in this new Afghanistan, said 16-year-old Seema, in early 2007, whose father was killed by a U.S. liberating bomb in Octobe
Deadly changeMARC W. HEROLDTHE first Afghan civilian killed by United States/North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (U.S./NATO) action in the New Year was a boy named Marjan, killed
Matrix of DeathMARC W. HEROLDA new dossier on the (im)precision of U.S. bombing and the (under)valuation of Afghan lives.
Debate over old pension scheme divides State governments and Centre The Centre has launched a propaganda war to discredit this decision against the new scheme.
