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Oct 22 2009
A pair of gunmen on a motorbike killed a soldier and a high-ranking army officer in the Pakistani capital Thursday morning, officials said, the latest strike against security forces as the military wages a major anti-Taliban offensive in the...
Oct 13 2009
Reporting from Rawalpindi, Pakistan - Dressed in camouflage and armed with automatic rifles, grenades, mines and suicide vests, the 10 militants who shot their way into Pakistan’s army headquarters were driven by a chilling goal: seize senior...
Oct 13 2009
The Afghan government’s appointee resigned Monday from the commission that’s investigating allegations of fraud in the country’s scandal-plagued Aug. 20 presidential election as the Obama administration struggles to craft a strategy to...
Aug 13 2009
It is a small town in Helmand, with nothing much to show for itself except decaying relics of American investment from the days of the Cold War and a landscape of unusual greenery amid the vast arid plains of southern Afghanistan. But yesterday,...
Jul 9 2009
As the US sends more troops to Afghanistan to try to reverse the growing violence, they are relying on the “clear, hold, build” model of counterinsurgency. The US hopes a surge of soldiers will help them clear areas of Taliban insurgents,...
Jun 8 2009
The soldiers turned on each other with shoves, punches and kicks. One swung an ammunition can in a slow-motion haymaker. The patrol had already been hapless: a display of errant marksmanship, dud ammunition and lackluster technique. “For months...
Jun 1 2009
Britain’s most senior military commanders have warned Gordon Brown that unless he sends more troops to Afghanistan Britain will lose credibility with its American allies, The Independent has learnt.
May 30 2009
Pakistani troops have retaken the largest town in the Swat Valley from the Taliban as the army presses its offensive against militants in the country’s northwest, the army spokesman said Saturday. Government forces had full control of Mingora,...
Oct 11 2008
My blood boils when Dr Zakir Naik speaks... I swore to myself that to keep my sanity intact I would not watch any of his videos... But, I was forced to listen while researching for my South Asia essay paper.. I heard him speak about why Muslims...
Mar 15 2008
The end of the court proceedings eliminates one of the legal issues that have thrreatened to block Zardari from holding government office and following in … Fahim serves legal notice on Khawaja Asif Daily Times Fahim serves legal notice on Khawaja...