The Surge

As the ‘surge’ in Afghanistan gets underway two tragic incidents are noteworthy. The US air attack in Afghanistan’s Farah province on civilians a few weeks ago and the latest drone delivered missile attack in Pakistan’s South Waziristan area on a funeral procession....

Peeling the Onion: The Taliban in Pakistan

“The Taliban are no longer a single movement with a single cause, The Taliban have become a phenomena, a hydra with different heads and no centre of gravity, an organizational structure with commonalities but different goals and objectives depending on locations and...

Taliban blows up 6 schools in Pakistan

The hardline Islamic Taliban militants continues to create trouble Pakistan establishment and its influence is spawning from restive Swat district in North Western Frontier Pakistan to other areas. They have...

'Forty held' in Khyber operation

Pakistani forces have acted decisevly against suspected militants in the Khyber region. The operation will be welcomed by US and NATO troops who have been coming under fire from Taleban supporters although the...

Taliban orders girls from school in Pakistan

In its brief rule in Afghanistan, Islamic Taliban clamped down several restrictions and imposed its radical brand of Islam on the men and particularly the women across Afghanistan. Taliban banned television, and...

Nato help sought to guard Taliban graves in Afghanistan

Taleban militias are fighting against NATO and USA forces in Afghnistan and they are troubling even when they are dead. BBC is reporting that the Afghan government has sought help from NATO forces to guard mass...

'Australian Taleban' fully free

" An Australian former inmate of the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay is now a free man after Australian police lifted strict controls on his actions. David Hicks spent more than five years at Guantanamo Bay...

Kabul 'bomb attack' on US embassy

Terror attack is killing innocents every where in Indian sub continent,This bomb blast infront of US embassy is clear indication that one particular section is feeling helpless , reason even they dont know, but...

Taliban hijack NATO convoy in Pakistan

Latest reports coming in from Pakistan says that  Pakistani security forces have retrieved 15 trucks that had been hijacked by the Taliban earlier in the day en route to Afghanistan to deliver goods to US-led coalition forces.A convoy carrying supplies for NATO forces...

Suicide bomb hits Pakistan elders: 15 dead 40 seriously injured

If  i strat counting death figure what i have reported today .........it is arround...oho how can i make any life a round figure....well exactly 200 deaths.This is latest story from pakistan, where atleast 15...

Nato to target Afghan drugs trade

Concerned with growth in drug trade in Afghanistan, NATO forces have been empowered to target opium factories. The UN said in August that poppy production in Afghanistan was down this year after a record-breaking...

Karzai's brother 'met ex-Taleban'

After the New York Times alleged that brother of afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is involved in opium trading, now this new revelation will even make him more embarrassed. President's brother is accused of having met the Taliban representative. "The Afghan president's...

Top Afghan policeWOMEN shot dead

she was the pride for the Afganista,,but women in police force was not acceptable for some section of Afgani society,so she has paid the price.... "     Gunmen in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar have killed the country's most prominent...

Archeologists find giant Buddha statue, survivor of 2001 Taliban destruction

Months before the September 11 terror attacks, the Taliban in Afghanistan made headlines with the mass destruction of a pair of 1500 year-old giant Buddha statues that lay along the ancient "Silk Road" in the...

France shocked by images of war

"Staring out from a glossy eight-page spread in the latest edition of the magazine Paris Match, several Taleban fighters show off their trophies of war. The loss of the 10 soldiers in Afghanistan shocked France Guns, walkie-talkies...

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from