US soldier fights Taliban wearing pink shorts
A US soldier has become an unlikely star of the war in Afghanistan after he was pictured fighting the Taliban wearing pink boxer shorts and flipflops.
Zachary Boyd, 19, was asleep when enemy fighters attacked his base in the Korengal Valley in Kunar province.
He had enough time to [...]
Islamabad/London, April 4 The dangers of imposing Sharia laws in Pakistan’s restive Swat Valley were brought into sharp focus Friday with the airing of a two-minute video showing a 17-year-old screaming, burqa-clad girl being whipped by Taliban fighters for coming “out of her house with another guy who was not her husband”.
The grainy video, shot [...]
New Delhi: Linking prevailing security scenario with illicit opium cultivation in Afghanistan, United Nations said the Taliban are earning 200 to 300 million dollars annually from a surcharge it levies on illegal trade in that country.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that “the Taliban have an annual revenue of between USD [...]
Washington: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has acknowledged that Taliban, with whom the Government reached a truce deal in the restive Swat valley days ago, are “murderous thugs and militants” who “pose a danger to Pakistan, the US and India“.
US Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, who is just back from Pakistan, told [...]
An interesting case has been filed in Mangalore.
The BJP and Advani were in power for 1 full-term, and they should have used the opportunity to push forward their agenda of Changes in the Consititution, etc,etc.
During the last election, Pakistan-born Advani and his communal cronies raised the non-issue of Sonia Gandhi being denied the Prime Minister [...]
New York, Dec 19 : All the roads of world terrorism lead to Pakistan that has got velvet glove treatment with zero results, says India born British novelist Salman Rushdie.
“The headquarters of the Al Qaeda, the headquarters of the Taliban, the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the headquarters of Jaish-e-Mohammad is in the world centre of terrorism [...]