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Mon, 21 May 2012 06:30:00 -0700
AUSTRALIA has dramatically increased its foreign aid to Afghanistan and signed a new "partnership agreement" guaranteeing support for the impoverished country.
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Fri, 18 May 2012 09:10:09 -0700
A new report by the United Nations drug agency sheds light on the nuts and bolts of narcotics transit from Afghanistan through Central Asia, highlighting the former Soviet republics’ lackluster efforts at interdiction. The 106-page report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), released this month, describes how smugglers traffic heroin and opium from Afghanistan, the world’s largest ...
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Wed, 23 May 2012 00:48:02 -0700
Turkmenistan signed a natural gas deal with Pakistan and India on Wednesday, in a significant boost to the proposed construction of a 1,800-kilometer (1,100-mile) pipeline across Afghanistan.
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Wed, 02 May 2012 12:19:50 -0700
Two-day UN conference in Geneva seeks solutions for the three million Afghan refugees living in Pakistan and Iran
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Thu, 10 May 2012 07:23:56 -0700
Islamic fundamentalism or radical Islam can be defined to mean a return to basic Islamic beliefs as enumerated in the Quran and Sunnah (what was heard by scholars from utterances of the Holy...
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Mon, 21 May 2012 07:55:24 -0700
Nato leaders on Monday called on Pakistan to reopen a key supply route into Afghanistan "as soon as possible" after talks with Islamabad on the border crossing faltered.
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Fri, 18 May 2012 12:01:16 -0700
The U.S. and NATO officials continue to call for pursuing greater regional diplomacy. They have yet to put forward concrete ideas about the content of such a negotiation that will include all of Afghanistan's neighbors.
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Mon, 21 May 2012 02:29:21 -0700
The weather’s getting warmer in Afghanistan and the war there is heating up again. That means – as it has meant every year for more than a decade – that the pace will quicken at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.
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Sun, 20 May 2012 00:19:41 -0700
Iran, Pakistan and other South Asian countries are a fast-rising force in the global methamphetamine market, with drug cartels thriving off the weak governance and law enforcement that have long fueled the region's heroin trade.
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Tue, 22 May 2012 23:47:00 -0700
Pakistan missed a valuable opportunity to create goodwill with the United States and other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members when it failed to announce a reopening of NATO supply routes to Afghanistan at the summit held Sunday and Monday in Chicago, says Lisa Curtis.
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