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Former Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah has said Hamid Karzai’s re-election is illegal.
Dr Abdullah was speaking publicly for the first time since Mr Karzai was declared the victor on Monday.
He told reporters in Kabul that Mr...
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Hamid Karzai has been declared the elected president of Afghanistan by poll officials, after they scrapped the planned second round of the vote.
The Independent Election Commission (IEC) announcement comes a day after Mr Karzai’s sole challenger,...
Gunmen wearing military uniforms and wielding assault rifles and grenades attacked Pakistan’s army headquarters Saturday, sparking a ferocious gunbattle outside the capital that left four of the assailants and eight soldiers dead, authorities...
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - A crowded Afghan passenger bus struck a roadside bomb Tuesday in the violent southern province of Kandahar, killing 30 people and injuring more than three dozen others, Afghan officials said. As many as 10 children...
Pakistanis’ views on the Taliban have shifted dramatically in the past year, with 70 percent now opposing the militants, according to a new poll. The United States doesn’t fare well either, with 64 percent of Pakistanis seeing Washington as...
The idea to transform a vacant tract near the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif into a sprawling commercial farm, with miles of strawberry fields and thousands of cashmere goats, began with an entreaty from President George W. Bush to the billionaire...
China is making a new attempt to stamp out illicit accounts known as “little coffers” - money which officials have skimmed from public funds.
Communist Party and government officials have been warned that they will be severely punished if...
Four US contractors for the company formerly known as Blackwater were not authorised to carry weapons when they were involved in a deadly shooting in Afghanistan this month, the US military said today.
The men - accused of opening fire on a vehicle in...
Insurgents in Afghanistan, fighting from some of the poorest and most remote regions on earth, have managed for years to maintain an intensive guerrilla war against materially superior American and Afghan forces.
On the heels of their crusade against girls going to schools, the Taliban have now issued new dictum in the areas under their sway asking parents of the grown up daughters to marry them to militants or ‘face dire consequences’.This new...
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