Shortly after the Pakistani Taliban won their demand for Islamic law in the Swat Valley, they seized control of the neighboring district of Buner—after overwhelming a village militia.
A NATO airstrike reportedly killed six civilians, including two children in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, while the Taliban executed a young couple for attempting to elope in Nimroz province.
The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the April 12 killing of Sitara Achakzai, a women’s rights advocate in Afghanistan and a member of Kandahar’s provincial assembly.
US drone attacks on Pakistan’s northwestern borderlands are causing a massive humanitarian emergency, with up to 1 million displaced in recent weeks, officials in Islamabad claim.
Pakistan’s newly re-instated chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has called a hearing into the video showing the public flogging of a teenage girl in the northwestern Swat Valley.
Much of the international aid to Afghanistan over the past seven years has been spent to achieve military and political objectives, and the current approach to aid lacks “clarity, coherence and resolve,” a group of international NGOs said in a… Read moreAghanistan: NATO militarizes humanitarian aid
Authorities in Pakistan are calling the release of a video of a 17-year-old girl being brutally flogged in public a deliberate attempt to sabotage the peace deal signed with the Taliban.
A federal judge in Washington DC ruled that three detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan can proceed with habeas corpus challenges to their detention.
Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, in political trading ahead of this year’s elections, has signed a Shia Family Law that women’s advocates at the UN say “legalizes” rape.
This time it is none other than neocon whiz kid and former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith, along with Justin Polin, a sidekick from the Hudson Institute, who favorably invoke the Sufis in a New York Times op-ed about… Read moreNeocons exploit Sufis on NYT op-ed page —again!
Barack Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy will dispatch 4,000 more troops to train Afghan security forces—as Afghan and Pakistani Taliban leaders have forged a cross-border alliance.
At least 11 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack at a restaurant in northwest Pakistan ‘s South Waziristan—the same day a US drone attack killed four in North Waziristan.
