It has been since eight years that the west is pouring money and their troops in Afghanistan but no significant achievement they have got yet in bringing peace and stability, their prime target and objective of dismantling of Al-Qaeda and Taliban
The International Committee of the Red Cross has condemned the use of improvised mines and other explosive devices in the Marjah area of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan
It was reported in media that Pakistani Chief of Army Staff General Kiyani visited South Waziristan to see the progress of rehabilitation of quick impact projects
The Durand Line refers to the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which is poorly marked and approximately 2,640 kilometers (1,610 miles) long. It was established after the 1893 Durand Line Agreement between the Government of colonial British India and Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman Khan for fixing the limit of their respective spheres of influence
“Over the centuries, trying to understand the Afghans and their country was turned into a fine art and a game of power politics by the Persians, the Mongols, the British, the Soviets and most recently the Pakistanis. But no outsider has ever conquered them or claimed their soul.”
This story is as old as time itself, a story of which many, many thousands of Afghans of the Diaspora can relate. This is a story of unmitigated loss, state-sponsored terrorism, economic and familial dislocation. This is a story of a people at war.