If American drone strikes violate Pakistani sovereignty, what about all of the foreign militants who not only launch attacks across the border into Afghanistan but are also a huge security threat?
No one has accepted responsibility for killing Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghanistan's former president and chairman of the country's High Council for Peace. But if not the Taliban, then who?
The Taliban once banned photography, movies, and use of the Internet on the grounds that they were all “un-Islamic.” Now, however, the terrorist group’s perspective has radically changed.
Osama bin Laden was living in a compound just a few hundred meters from Pakistan's leading military academy for years before U.S. forces killed him. But despite the massive evidence suggesting Pakistani complicity in his hiding, much of the country's media has been trying to spin the news.
Fabrication, exaggeration and drama seem to be necessary elements in writing about Afghanistan today. A better approach would be for writers to acknowledge their ignorance of the place and to understand that Afghanistan is a complex land.
The Taliban, which while in power in Afghanistan banned photography, movies, and the use of the Internet as un-Islamic, now makes full use of those media for propaganda and recruitment purposes.
The murder last week of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's minority affairs minister and the only Christian in the cabinet, is a reminder of how dangerous it can be to voice one's opinion in violence-riddled Pakistan.
A country that was founded on the basis of religion remains in a dark morass presided over by insidious, violent ideologies.
