Mullah Omar can run for Afghan presidency in 2014, says Karzai

And the war will end by the end of next year ... In the elusive search for an Obama Doctrine, that struck me as a telling phrase when I heard the president deliver it last week as he and British Prime Minister David Cameron took a couple of ...

'No political or cultural figurehead has ever come up with the phrase "a British dream", so Mod appeals to me politically because it's the closest we've ever come to having an American Dream.' So says Richard Weight, author of Mod: A Very British ...

A large part of the voters would be deprived through the Talibans violence of their basic right to an informed choice and to elect their leaders unhindered and freely Relentless and merciless bombings and cold-blooded assassinations by the Taliban, ...

NAIROBI The Ugandan military has suspended its hunt for war crimes suspect Joseph Kony and his Lords Resistance Army, delivering a major setback to capturing a notorious warlord accused in the abductions of tens of thousands of children over the ...

WASHINGTON - The United States drone paradigm is not working as aerial operations in pursuit of elusive Al-Qaeda are fuelling militancy and adding to the woes of marginalised tribal societies, scholar Akbar S Ahmed told a Washington think tank. Dr ...

London, Apr. 3 (ANI): Afghanistan's worst nightmare of Pakistan cutting back on support for peace talks with the Taliban ahead of the NATO troops pull out in 2014, has come true. Afghan foreign ministry spokesman Janan Mosazai said Pakistan is ...

ISLAMABAD: Many in Afghanistan believe the war-torn nation may slip into another civil war if the US and Taliban fail to resume talks and reach a peace deal before the withdrawal of Nato forces in 2014 . Both conflicting parties insist the ...

The state of emergency declared in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States by President Goodluck Jonathan has expectedly heightened the debate on how to tackle insecurity in the country. Olawale Olaleye, Ademola Adeyemo and Shola Oyeyipo write Almost a week ...

- NAWAZ Sharif, a completely changed person since return from exile, much more articulate and determined to restore the country's image, launched himself without wasting time and when he paid a surprise visit to his arch rival, Imran Khan, in ...