[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 ...

Posted by Javed Iqbal No Army in the world wants to engage in fratricidal counterinsurgency operations; pitching its firepower against its misdirected countrymen who for whatever misconceived motivations may choose to turn their guns on their compatriots and the armed forces. Before the Twin Towers in the Manhattan district of New York came crashing down in the early morning hours on Sep Eleven, the prospec ...

Posted by Javed Iqbal The challenging relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan has long been locked in horns. There have been too many ups and downs to call the relationship anything but one that is sustainable, mature and long lasting. While the two-day mid-April Afghan military visit to Pakistan indicated thawing in relationship, a series of cross border incidents and Afghanistan’s severe official re ...

By Brigadier (r) Iftikhar Ayub Khan For a Government as well as a soldier peace is the ultimate desire. No war plan is complete that fails to see through and beyond the end game. And all horrors of war must culminate into peace and that is what the 16th Century jurists believed that end of war must bring peace under conditions acceptable to both sides irrespective of winners and losers. The message was lost ...