The Super Power under Siege
ahmed sabirGeneral Mirza Aslam Beg On 7th October 2001, President Bush launched the 'Sock and Awe' Crusade against Taliban, hoping to defeat them and consolidate hold over Afghanistan but failed. The…
Wali Karzai – Drugs baron, CIA agent or Afghan defender?
Claire Truscott Ahmed Wali Karzai, the Afghan president's assassinated younger brother, was either a drugs baron, a CIA agent or a fierce defender of the Afghan people, depending on who…
Attacks show Taliban are not as weak as the US claims
Patrick Cockburn The killing of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the most powerful Afghan in the south of the country, will reinforce the feeling among Afghans that the Taliban can strike anywhere…
Raped Afghan women have no hope of justice
Most women in Afghanistan are unaware of their own legal rights, and lack judicial support when trying to defend them Noorjahan Akbar In December 2010, in a small house located…
Long live people’s resistance in Nandigram
As observed by Jiten Nandi, Shamik Sarkar, Md. Helaluddin, Subhapratim Roychowdhury, Anupam Das Adhikari and Amita Nandi on behalf of Manthan Samayiki, a bi-monthly Bengali little magazine from Kolkata, West…