By Kathy Gannon The Afghan organization was in talks to exchange senior prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for for a captured US soldier. Afghanistan's Taliban said Sunday they had suspended "mediation" with the United States to exchange captive Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five senior Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, halting — at least temporarily — what was considered the best chance yet of securing the 27-ye ...

By Niamatullah Karyab and Rod Nordlandfeb Taliban insurgents overran an Afghan National Army base near here on Sunday morning, killing 21 soldiers in their bunks in what appeared to be the worst single blow to government forces since 2010, according to both government and insurgent officials. President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation and canceled a planned state visit to Sri Lanka in response to the a ...

By Muhammad Daim Fazil If you go through daily newspapers of recent days, you will discover one frequent connotation, however, with dissimilar arguer, and that is “Constitution of the country is based on Islamic values and no law can be enforced other than Quran and Hadith”. People read and move to next headline but nobody has bothered to ponder on this statement. Even some religious scholars have bluntly s ...

[caption id="attachment_10524" align="alignright" width="269"] The World Largest Dam[/caption] By Sohail Parwaz Mark Twain gave a famous quote that "whisky is for drinking; water is for fighting over". No one would have ever given a serious thought to it but unfortunately a series of reports from intelligence agencies and research groups indicate the prospect of a water war is becoming increasingly probable ...

By Rida Zaheer KARACHI:  MQM displayed solidarity with Armed Forces for start of operation against terrorists.   Thousands of people gathered in Karachi and paid tribute to the martyred of security forces. “We hold this endeavor in high regard as it will go a long, long way in boosting the 'esprit de corps' of Pakistan’s sentinels”, a spokesman for the paramilitary troops said. Praying for the steadfastness ...

By Zaheerul Hassan What is Arab Spring The ‘Arab Spring’ appeared in the Arab World in December 2010 and covered all most entire Arab World in 2011. However, Egypt has emerged as the most iconic manifestation of it and gave jolt to the leading and powerful nation in the ‘Arab World’. It also shaken the monarchism, hit the nerve centre and forced the rulers either to start with democracy or spend more on the ...

By Jack Serle and Alice K Ross Yemen’s president has said that the UK is a participant in a secret ‘joint operations control room’ in Yemen’s capital, from which individuals who are ‘going to be targeted’ are identified. President Abdel Rabbo Mansur al Hadi made the claim while speaking to Human Rights Watch (HRW) researchers about covert US drone operations in his country. The US, Yemen and Nato were also ...

By Paul Vallely The war in Syria began much earlier than is generally recognised. The conflict actually began in the year 632 with the death of the Prophet Mohamed. The same is true of the violence, tension or oppression currently gripping the Muslim world from Iraq and Iran, though Egypt, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan. A single problem lies behind all that friction and hostili ...