Can Pakistan make peace next door?

Kabul Ambassador James Dobbins arrived in Kabul yesterday for his first trip to Afghanistan in his new capacity as U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ambassador Dobbins met with President Hamid Karzai and other senior Afghan ...

Nawaz Sharief's election for an unprecedented third time as Pakistan's prime minister has been welcomed by the Afghan government. Afghan President Hamid Karzai congratulating Sharief called upon the new Pakistani government to enhance cooperation in ...

WASHINGTON President Obama on Friday named James F. Dobbins, a veteran diplomat who oversaw the return of the United States to Afghanistan after the defeat of the Taliban in 2001, as his third special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, an ...

After the eruption of Durand Line skirmishes with Pakistan, the need of having strong strategic and security relations with a power like the US have gone many notches higher, but a much-debated strategic partnership agreement (SPA) has been up in ...

The complex information, security and privacy issues brought to the fore by recently exposed National Security Agency programs to mine telephone and Internet data might best be handled by a special data court, the Economist magazines Data Editor ...

Despite the U.S. plan to withdraw from Afghanistan in late 2014, Washington is likely to maintain a presence of around 10,000 civilian and military personnel. The need to protect the security of those remaining forces requires the United States to ...

Who are the neoconservatives? The neoconservative movement, which is generally perceived as a radical (rather than conservative) Republican right, is, in reality, an intellectual movement born in the late 1960s in the pages of the monthly magazine ...

The Hizb-i-Islami of Afghanistan, led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, claimed responsibility for the attack against an American convoy in Kabul on Thursday May 16. Six American military advisers (two Nato service members, four Nato contractors), and at ...

The United States of America on Sunday once again emphasized on the legal status of Durand Line as the border line between Afghanistan and Pakistan despite Afghan president Hamid Karzai insisted that the government of Afghanistan will never accept ...