Now that the bombing is over and Osama and Omar have evacuated themselves, Afghanistan will once again recede from our mindset. But we still do not know Afghanistan. In an
After nearly a month of US-led military strikes in fi.Afghanistan, the future of the country is less certain now than at any time since 1996. The Taliban emerged from
Pakistan has moved from being an international 'basket case' to 'frontline state' in just a month. The change has been stunningly quick. For two years, Musharraf
The US response to the carnage perpetrated on 11 September, could be a catalyst for an unwinnable, long drawn war without frontiers. A 'shoot first ask questions later'
War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet
by Eric Margolis; Routledge, New York; 2000; pp 250; USD 22; ISBN: 0415927129
The Himalayan watershed
The Taliban regime's effort to rally world Muslim opinion behind it by projecting the vandalism at Bamiyan and the large-scale destruction of artefacts in other parts of the
On 8 April, the United Nations Security Council condemned the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan for a whole host of misdemeanours—for continuing its military offensives in the country's
Ever since coming to power, Pakistan´s Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf has gone out of his way to constantly reassure Pakistanis and the world that civil liberties will be
The war in Afghanistan started in the middle of the excavation of six Kushan graves in Tillya Tepe. Through the war, the world wondered about the Bactiran golden hoard'
Pakistan's fiercely independent Pakhtun tribals become sacrificial lambs for Shariat.
Malakand's Islam is no different from the one being practised by the Taliban in Afghanistan,"
The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan
by Peter Marsden
Oxford University Press, Karachi/Zed Books, London & New York, 1998
pp x+162, PKR 395
