Taliban Resurgence in Afghanistan

Condoleezza Rice urges India-Pakistan cooperation in Mumbai attacks aftermath

Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, urged India and Pakistan to cooperate in investigating last week's Mumbai attacks as she arrived in Delhi to try to avert another conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Paul Cruickshank: Reducing tensions between India and Pakistan is the key to peace

Although the investigation into last week's attacks in Mumbai is at an early stage, the first indications are that it was carried out by Lashkar e Taiba (LeT), a Kashmiri militant group, with close organisational ties to...

Michael Shank and Shukria Dellawar: Obama shouldn't transfer Bush's Iraq policy to Afghanistan

With Robert Gates remaining at the helm of the US defence department for another term, Barack Obama signals that the Pentagon's modus operandi changes little. The good news: lessons learned from George Bush's administration...

Surinder Arora urges employees to remain vigilant in the wake of Mumbai bombs

Property and hotel tycoon Surinder Arora has warned hotel employees to remain vigilant of unusual behaviour from both hotel guests and staff members in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Speaking at the Arena Lunch on...

Clash leaves 10 militants killed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF)and the U.S.-led Coalition forces during two separate operations Tuesday killed 10 insurgents in war-torn Afghanistan, said Coalition statements released here on...

McCain opposes military action against Pakistan, wants hard evidence !

New Delhi, Dec 02: US Senator John McCain on Tuesday said he was hopeful of Pakistan's cooperation with India in the Mumbai terrorist attack probe and opposed a military strike against Islamabad. Underlining solidarity with...

Will Obama stay the course?

I do so want to believe that Barack Obama is on the right track. His brain is big, his style fresh, his pronouncements both logical and compelling, and it does feel good to have a president-elect elicit universal respect rather...

Yes, The Terrorists Are Winning … The PC War

By Steven Emerson - (JWR) This past Saturday, the New York Times ran an op-ed piece entitled “What They Hate about Mumbai,” focusing specifically on the free market sins of that great city. With contrived evenhandedness, the...

Fallen soldier arrives home from Afghanistan

The body of Lieutenant Michael Fussell who was killed in Afghanistan last week has arrived back in Australia. The 25-year-old Commando was killed during an attack against the Taliban in Oruzgan Province. The Department of...

Urgent need to re-evaluate threat to Pakistan: Dawn editorial

Islamabad, Dec. 3 (ANI): The lacklustre approach by the Pakistan Government and provincial adminsitrations to dealing with militancy and insurgency has led analysts and experts to suggest that in the wake of the terror attacks...

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