In what constitutes a big foreign policy success for President Barack Obama and the United States, Afghan presidential candidates Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah have…
Developing An old adage is, “Don’t change horses when you are crossing a stream.” There is an important gloss on that adage, however. The fuller…
Stunning details of the massive fraud in the Afghan presidental run-off election have been published in the New York Times, in an article by veteran…
This is probably the last chance for the United States, NATO, and other ISAF countries to avoid losing the Afghan war. To succeed in averting…
Developing Four days after the presidential run-off election in Afghanistan, Abdullah Abdullah, who led the first-round results with 45% of the votes compared to 32%…
Last Revised and Updated June 18, 2014 Distracted by Iraq and the World Cup, the leaders of the West seem to have forgotten about the…
The leading candidate in Afghanistan’s presidential election, Abdullah Abdullah, narrowly escaped assassination today in Kabul. Abdullah led the first round of the election with some…
Syed Saleem Shahzad, the Pakistan Bureau Chief for Asia Times Online, was assassinated in Pakistan at the time of or shortly after his disappearance on…
Continuing Reflections on “the Smartest Person in the Room” In a previous article, we offered some observations on the report that President Obama always considers…
For an overview of the polling in the afghan National Assembly elections on Saturday, September 18, see “Afghans vote for parliament amid threats, attacks,” DAWN…
To the Observer, the idea of trying to make Karzai a more central player in efforts to root out corruption in his own government sounds like giving Al Capone a more central role in cleaning up Chicago.
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) traveled to Kabul on August 17 to deliver the Obama administration’s warning to Hamid Karzai that he must clean up corruption…
The newspapers will be filled for days with information and views regarding Obama’s June 23 firing of General Stanley McChrystal and his replacement by General…
The newspapers will be filled for days with information and views regarding Obama’s meeting with Stanley McChrystal and his Afghanistan team on Wednesday, June 23,…
Margaret Warner interviewed Hamid Karzai’s opponent in the August 20, 2009 presidential elections in Afghanistan, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, on the Newshour on Friday, May 21….
Farsical But Sinister Robert H. Reid of AP summarizes the farsical but sinister events of the last week in the ever stranger opera buffa of…
The New York Times reported on February 10 the following: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan has told the United States it wants a central role in…