At least 10 election candidates have been killed, thousands of polling centres closed, and many voters are likely to stay home due to the threat of militant attacks. This is democracy, Afghanistan ...

In a meeting of Al Qaeda’s military wing in Peshawar in August 1988, Osama had only listed a few non-Arab theatres, including Kashmir*, as the next destination for an Afghanistan-like jihad that Arab ...

Almost nine million people have registered to vote in the October 20 parliamentary election, which is more than three years late and only the third since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. This is ...