Tajik President Emomali Rahmon says he believes the solution to the Afghan problem lies in the country’s economic and social revival, rather than in military strength.
Richard Holbrooke, the new American envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has met former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Lahore to get the mainstream conservative view of where the country was heading.
Events are planned worldwide this week to mark the 200th anniversary of English naturalist Charles Darwin's birth on February 12 and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his work "On the Origin of Species." While in many countries Darwin's scientific discoveries on evolution and biodiversity are considered the foundation of modern biology, Darwin isn't taught in schools in Afghanistan and Iran.
Near-simultaneous suicide attacks have left at least 26 dead in the Afghan capital. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the assaults, which targeted government buildings one day before the visit of new U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke.
The European Union is ready to improve its relationship with Tajikistan in keeping with broader efforts to expand its role in Central Asia. The head of the European Commission gave clear indications of this after meeting with the Tajik president, whose agenda in Brussels will include security and energy issues.
Russia could offer its military aircraft to help supply NATO-led soldiers fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke visited northwest Pakistan's tribal region, where security forces have been battling Islamist militants, officials said.
The stoning appears to be the first such execution in Afghanistan since the overthrow of the fundamentalist Taliban regime in 2001.
Pakistan has advised U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan to reach out to reconcilable elements of the Taliban movement as part of a strategy for peace in the region.
The recent Munich Security Conference offered Europeans an opportunity to get a first-person briefing on the new U.S. administration's foreign-policy goals. That's why guests listened so intently to what Vice President Joe Biden had to say in a keynote speech that ranged freely from Russia to Afghanistan. But did everyone who was listening hear the same thing?
A suicide bomb has hit a convoy of NATO-led troops and killed two soldiers in southeastern Afghanistan.
In his first prime-time news conference, U.S. President Barack Obama said the country is in a "full blown crisis" and warned if Congress doesn't pass his economic plan immediately, the results could be catastrophic. On foreign policy, he warned of difficult challenges ahead in Afghanistan and said his administration is looking for opportunities to engage diplomatically with Iran.
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