Taleban

Thousands sign Nobel petition for Pakistan’s Malala

9 Nov 2012

More than 87,000 people have signed a global petition calling for Pakistani schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, campaigners said on Friday.

Front-line frolics

7 May 2009

For Diego Bunuel's mother, perhaps the best Mother's Day present ever is knowing her son is not going back to Iraq, Pakistan or any of the other war zones he has been frequenting over the past...

How to nip the opium problem in the bud

5 Feb 2009

Quite right - the Obama administration is gearing up to pressure the Europeans to put more men in boots on the ground in Afghanistan.

A deal with the devil

8 Sep 2007

A week after the liberation of a group of South Korean Christians from a six-week hostage ordeal in Afghanistan, the head of South Korea's spy agency, the government and the church that sponsored...

When it's right to talk to terrorists

5 Sep 2007

How much might a human life be worth these days? That's an utterly absurd question to answer in dollar terms, to be sure. But apparently it wasn't that tough for the pragmatic South Korean...

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Caught in the middle

The crisis of the South Korean hostages captured by Taleban forces in Afghanistan hits Korean leaders where they're most vulnerable. Seoul might have preferred not to have sent troops to...

Villagers digging in against the Taleban

With spade and gun, Afghans are rebuilding, now they need faith in government

Dutch try soft power to defeat Taleban

US bombs failed to eradicate Afghan militia; Nato hopes to make them irrelevant

Standing on a ridge in a remote province in south-central Afghanistan, a Dutch platoon commander...

Taleban feeding on poverty and prejudice

Islamist militia has harnessed hatred and desperation in renewed Afghan jihad

Highway No 5 heading east out of Kabul is at once a symbol of the efforts being made to modernise...

Hope, a dream and chaos

FIVE YEARS AGO, the defeat of the Taleban and the end of their pernicious ban on girls and women teachers going to school brought hope back to Afghanistan.

9.11 voices

ANISA SULAIMANKHEL is a 35-year-old physics teacher at a girls' school in Kabul. Fluent in Russian and with an MA in economics, she was director-general in the labour ministry when the Taleban...