Security forces killed five men Wednesday near the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials from the two countries said, though they offered conflicting claims over whether the dead were militants or cattle farmers. The men had crossed the porous border to get fodder for their cattle when Afghan security forces killed them, Pakistani official Taj Mohammed said. Mohammad is a deputy commissioner in ...

  Mohammad Jamil Militants seem to have learnt the ropes so far as political maneuvering and strategic planning are concerned. They use every ruse and subterfuge to achieve their objectives. The TTP had offered peace talks to the newly elected government, but after the drone strike killed Wali-ur-Rehman, the TTP withdrew the offer. Now the spokesman of the banned organization has said that the TTP never mad ...

Sandeep Unnthan In November 2011, the Indian Navy was particularly incensed with what a US naval lieutenant had posted on a blog. The unnamed lieutenant, who spent four days on destroyer INS Delhi in the Arabian Sea as part of an exchange programme, called the Indian crew "generally clueless", with "almost zero seamanship skills". It was a long, harsh critique of what he saw on the frontline warship. At the ...

[caption id="attachment_9176" align="alignnone" width="640"] British Foreign Secretary William Hague (L), French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (C) and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at a Sept. 16 news conference on Syria in Paris.[/caption] Summary While plans for the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles take shape, the magnitude of the operation should not be overlooked. The effort will ...

By Niloofar Qureshi With the killing of a Major General alongwith another officer and one soldier in a roadside bomb attack in the Upper Dir district of the restive Northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan, the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has clearly demonstrated how serious is about negotiating with the Nawaz Sharif led government. Coming just days after the Pakistan government announ ...

Afghanistan’s president said Tuesday that he was in no rush to sign a security deal with the United States, once again dashing American hopes that a pact can be quickly finalized. The United States wants a deal by October to give American and NATO military planners enough time to prepare for to keep some troops in the country after a scheduled 2014 withdrawal, instead of a total pull-out. Afghanistan and th ...

Supporters of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party clashed with police Wednesday amid a nationwide strike called to protest a court’s ruling that one of the opposition party’s leaders should be executed for war crimes. One man was killed when he was hit by a stone thrown by opposition supporters outside the capital, police said. Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced Abdul Quader Mollah, a senior mem ...

A look at some leading potential candidates for Afghanistan’s presidency By Associated Press, Published: September 16 KABUL, Afghanistan — Would-be candidates for the presidency of Afghanistan have through Oct. 6 to formally declare their intentions, and it’s anyone’s guess who will end up running and who will win. Afghan politics are largely about patronage and being on the winning team, so many potential ...