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Three highly impressive candidates with significant political potential. All needing a win to make it into parliament, and all currently neck-and-neck in the polls.

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TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): Two rival families have ended their enmity thanks to mediation from local officials, religious scholars and tribal elders in central Uruzgan province. According

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): As the Kabul-Jalalabad highway remained closed against traffic for the past one week following rockslides, commuters say the government should complete the highway’s

MAIDAN SHAHR/GHAZNI (Pajhwok): A child was killed and 16 people were injured in two separate traffic accidents in central Maidan Wardak and southern Ghazni provinces

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LONDON: Several army officials and civilians have been arrested in Afghanistan on charges of conspiracy against the...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to

This article explores the sources of urban insecurity and violence in Karachi, Pakistan since the 1990s. Based on fieldwork, the article also examines and assesses the effects and effectiveness of a wide-range of anti-crime measures, including the deployments of national military and paramilitary forces, the role of national and local police forces as well as of politicians, the business community, and civil society in responding to violent crime and a broad set of local illicit economies. As Pa...

“War provides an outlet for every evil element in man’s nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and