Panjshir looked promising on the map - that Afghanistan is grappling with a 15-year insurgency was not going to deter them. ''It's extreme geography that attracts extreme sportsmen, not the fact ...

For example, consider that lapis lazuli, a mineral excavated in present-day Afghanistan, found its way into Egyptian tombs. A common root language in the region (indeed, the root language for English) ...

BANGKOK (THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - In a good number of places around the globe, however, we have reached a kind of bottleneck, not only in regard to girls' access to education, but in regard ...

RFE/RL: Explain what you mean when you say that Afghanistan and Pakistan’s geography binds them together? Kaplan: Afghanistan and Pakistan share the same fate. That’s because there’s no real ...

Panjshir looked promising on the map - that Afghanistan is grappling with a 15-year insurgency was not going to deter them. "It's extreme geography that attracts extreme sportsmen, not the fact ...

Panjshir looked promising on the map — that Afghanistan is grappling with a 15-year insurgency was not going to deter them. "It's extreme geography that attracts extreme sportsmen, not the fact ...