Pashtun Taliban

Residents of a Hazara-dominated farming community in central Afghanistan say they have been ordered out of their homes by Talibandoing the bidding of Pashtun landlords who want to seize their crops and stores.

The Taliban's military takeover of Afghanistan was swift and decisive. Forming an inclusive government to avoid another civil war is proving to be much harder.

The government in Moldova said today that two of its nationals were among those captured by the Taliban after their helicopter crash-landed in northern Afghanistan and appealed to the United States for help.

Ankle bells chimed as male dancers shimmied beneath chandeliers in midnight wedding revelry that drew together an entire frontline Afghan village just days after its residents humiliatingly routed the Taliban.

Residents of Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun region of North Waziristan accused government troops on Monday of killing dozens of civilians during a military operation against Taliban insurgents.

When 16-year-old Tahira was murdered in a horrific acid attack last year, her poverty-stricken parents got no justice. Pakistan officials slammed the door in their faces and the police refused to listen.

Every year as the snow melts, groups like Taliban and its affiliates, the Haqqani network, as also the Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) cross over from Pakistan as a fresh fighting season begins in Afghanistan. It is soldiers like Commander Kushal Sadat from Special Forces 222 who are called upon when terror strikes.

A car bomb exploded outside a political party's election office in Pakistan's commercial hub Karachi late on Friday killing six people, officials said.

A disturbing video posted recently on YouTube, which has received more than 300,000 hits, shows a group of young Afghan or Pakistani Pashtun boys enacting a suicide bombing where one of them, whose face is covered by a black mask, bids farewell to others and then pretends to blow himself up.     The boys all appear to be pre-tee...

Karachi is increasingly becoming a safe haven for Taliban and other extremist elements in the country, an article in a US magazine said.

Residents of a Hazara-dominated farming community in central Afghanistan say they have been ordered out of their homes by Talibandoing the bidding of Pashtun landlords who want to seize their crops and stores.

The Taliban's military takeover of Afghanistan was swift and decisive. Forming an inclusive government to avoid another civil war is proving to be much harder.

The government in Moldova said today that two of its nationals were among those captured by the Taliban after their helicopter crash-landed in northern Afghanistan and appealed to the United States for help.

Ankle bells chimed as male dancers shimmied beneath chandeliers in midnight wedding revelry that drew together an entire frontline Afghan village just days after its residents humiliatingly routed the Taliban.

Residents of Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun region of North Waziristan accused government troops on Monday of killing dozens of civilians during a military operation against Taliban insurgents.

When 16-year-old Tahira was murdered in a horrific acid attack last year, her poverty-stricken parents got no justice. Pakistan officials slammed the door in their faces and the police refused to listen.

Every year as the snow melts, groups like Taliban and its affiliates, the Haqqani network, as also the Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) cross over from Pakistan as a fresh fighting season begins in Afghanistan. It is soldiers like Commander Kushal Sadat from Special Forces 222 who are called upon when terror strikes.

A car bomb exploded outside a political party's election office in Pakistan's commercial hub Karachi late on Friday killing six people, officials said.

A disturbing video posted recently on YouTube, which has received more than 300,000 hits, shows a group of young Afghan or Pakistani Pashtun boys enacting a suicide bombing where one of them, whose face is covered by a black mask, bids farewell to others and then pretends to blow himself up.     The boys all appear to be pre-tee...

Karachi is increasingly becoming a safe haven for Taliban and other extremist elements in the country, an article in a US magazine said.