EDITORIAL: Afghan prospects and Pakistan
Barely a week before Afghanistan’s scheduled election run-off between him and the incumbent President Hamid Karzai, the presidential challenger Mr Abdullah Abdullah has quit because his “demands for a fair vote were not met”. This has put the legitimacy of the presidency in the melting pot once again... 
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ANALYSIS: In the Afghan marshes —Rasul Bakhsh Rais
The political reality in the home countries of the troops fighting in the ‘marshes’ of Afghanistan and on the ground is very different. The Taliban insurgency is stronger and growing at a time when the popular support for the war is declining fast
Afghanistan is a dry country, but it seems...
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DEVELOPMENT: Afghanistan’s drug menace —Syed Mohammad Ali
Now that a major security operation is being undertaken in the region, an attempt must also be made to focus on simultaneous eradication efforts to ensure that FATA’s role in the processing or even cultivation of opiates is effectively curbed
The lingering turmoil in Afghanistan has created...
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OPINION: Count me out —Uri Avnery
Yasser Arafat was conscious of the faults of the agreement. He told his people that it was “the best possible agreement in the worst possible circumstances”. But he believed that the dynamics of the peace process would overcome the obstacles on the way. So did I. We were both wrong
A YEAR...
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VIEW: Birthplace of Modern Asia —Brahma Chellaney
While the overthrow of totalitarian or autocratic regimes shifted the global balance of power in favour of the forces of democracy, not all the pro-democracy movements succeeded. And the subsequent “colour revolutions” in places like Ukraine only instilled greater caution among the surviving authoritarian...
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