Three days ago, about 200 militants from Afghanistan crossed the military line of control into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Pakistan-occupied Pakhtunistan and attacked a military outpost. The battle lasted for two days. A couple of days prior to this attack, the Taleban attacked the city of Herat near the Iran-Afghan border and the city of Taloqan,…
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Editors’s Note: We consider the New York Times to be, generally speaking, the best newspaper in the world. We have written articles praising the NYT by drawing comparisons with other excellent newspapers. The NYT has excellent reporters who write sensibly about areas they know well. But we also find a strain of cultural and religious…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to…
Joseph Lelyveld, a former executive editor of the New York Times, has written a biography of Gandhi titled Great Soul. Some comments in this book have created a storm of protest in India. It has been banned by the State of Gujarat, the state where Gandhi hailed from and where he founded his ashram. The…
Editor’s Note – In our early articles about Afghanistan, we complained about the lack of knowledge about Afghanistan and today’s Pakistan in the American Media. Then we realized it is not enough to complain. The Pushtun history is deeply intertwined with Indian history. So in November 2010 we began to write about the Indo-Afghan Continuum. After…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to…
It is a strange time in the Middle East. Leaders that lasted for decades are being toppled in days. These are leaderless revolts against corrupt leaders. No one knows what regimes take over in these leaderless lands. We see contradictions everywhere.How clear was the picture just a couple of months ago? The Sunni Arab coalition…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to…