Do the Afghan national security forces have the necessary capacity to take over security operations from the international military forces stationed in Afghanistan? It depends on who is asking. In
INDIA
To the pole!
India launched its first-ever scientific research mission to the South Pole in November. A team of eight scientists from the Goa-based National Centre for Antarctic and
Taliban threats to disrupt the polls notwithstanding, voting for Afghanistan's parliamentary elections concluded on 18 September with less violence than anticipated. Though there were over 300 reports of
It had long been believed that Afghanistan possessed mineral deposits of significance, partially confirmed by Russian geologists during the 1970s and 1980s. The long years of war and instability disallowed
The massacres at two Ahmadiyya mosques in Lahore is the result of anti-Ahmadi sentiment fanned by religious extremists and allowed by a compromised state and the silent support of political parties.
Trotted out on every outing like a favourite suit, the 'mantra' of regional cooperation in and on Afghanistan was seen once again at the end of April, at
AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN
Militant wood
President Hamid Karzai's odd outburst in March, in which he threatened to quit the government and join the Taliban, was no doubt a momentary
