Ironies of the Afghan war
HE was captured on Feb 8, 2010, in a joint CIA-ISI raid outside Karachi. The Obama administration described the arrest of the Afghan Taliban’s second-in-command as a “turning point” in…
A new Afghan war in the offing?
The famous quote "Geography is destiny" aptly applies to Pakistan, which remains a permanent prisoner of its geography. In the last 70 years, Pakistan has fought six open wars and…
Lessons from the end of the Afghan war
War is beyond the question of jus ad bellum and jus in bello. It involves risks and consequences beyond the conflict boundaries. The aftermath of war is usually horrendous. Whether…
The Afghan war
It is impossible to win a war that you cannot define. That seems to be the main lesson to be drawn from Afghanistan, where a so-called victory seems ever more…
The Afghan war
We expect 17-year-olds to have learned a great deal starting from infancy, and yet full-grown adults have proven incapable of knowing anything about Afghanistan during the course of 17 years…
The Afghan war
Media reports claim President Donald Trump let loose on his generals behind closed doors, blasting them royally for their startling failures in Afghanistan, America’s longest war. The president has many…
The Afghan war
The US is still at war in Afghanistan - not that you’d know it from the presidential election. While the campaign against ISIL (also known as ISIS) in Iraq and…
Carry On Up the Khyber: Afghan war comedy hits cinemas
War in Afghanistan may be no laughing matter but a new comedy starring Tina Fey based on the memoir of an American war reporter opens next week as a modern-day…
Volunteer hospitals provide lifeline in deadly Afghan war
Women and children are facing the brunt of the Afghan conflict this year. Overburdened war trauma centres are trying to save as many as they can. Kabul (dpa) - At…
America’s Afghan wars
There is no shortage of books and literature detailing the failure of the Western forces in defeating the Taliban insurgency that had started to spread by 2003 marking the beginning…
