Tagged: Afghanistan

Confused?

…so am I. *** *** *** *** Images courtesy: The Hindu, ET, ToI, IE Related Post: Explaining AfPak to a 14-year old

Explaining AfPak to a 14-year old

Last evening as I was trying to explain to my 14-year old why a possible US withdrawal from Afghanistan could be bad for India, I realised how hopeless the US case for continued involvement...

The demise of “Pashtunwali”…

Has the much-vaunted Pashtun tradition fallen by the wayside in the face of Taliban (pl. see last sentence of the extract below)? From a report in The Hindu (dt Apr 30 ’09):  …Islamabad (PTI): Taliban militants have...

Weekend Reading – Served Differently

I am experimenting with a different reading format this weekend…dispensing with extracts…(and) instead letting you *pick and choose* from a few links on different topics… Pl. let me know what you think of this…As some of...