Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Taliban'
Lessons of May 11
by Zubeida Mustafa, Dawn, Pakistan - Election 2013 has proved to be an enigma. We are a people in a hurry and immediately after the polling took place on May 11 we had started jumping to conclusions. The facts had...
Prisoners of Tradition: Women in Afghanistan
by Ariane Wu, Center for Investigative Journalism, USA - The majority of Afghan women in prison have committed no other crime than being in love with the wrong man – or running away from abusive husbands who were selected by...
Swat the Taliban
by Mariana Baabar, Outlook, India - Malala was a warning. Pakistan has to build a stomach for a fight....
Malala Yousafzai: The Crime of Wanting an Education
by Khadija Patel, Daily Maverick, USA - A 14-year old Pakistani girl is recovering from a gunshot to the head after Taliban militants attacked the minibus she was travelling in. But this was no random attack. The girl was targeted,...
Before the Afghan Drawdown
by Razeshta Sethna, Dawn, Pakistan - In 2014, the US will have fought a 13-year-war in Afghanistan. Though there is fear that once the foreign forces exit, the country will fall into civil war with Al Qaeda elements in Pakistan...
Inside a School for Suicide Bombers
by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, TED, USA - Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy takes on a terrifying question: How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a training camp is intercut with her interviews of young camp graduates. A...
The Dreams of Afghan Women Can't Die Now
by Fawzia Koofi, Guardian, UK - Afghan women would not be where we are without British support. Do not let the Taliban take our cherished rights away....
Afghan Women after Osama's Death
by Corinna Barnard, Asia Sentinel, Hong Kong - "They still live in a country that is ravaged by poverty, corruption, violence and terror. They still must cope with a conservative culture that does not uphold their human rights."...
Floods Stunt Pakistani Effort Against Insurgents
by Carlotta Gall, New York Times, USA - The destruction caused by the recent floods and the huge relief effort undertaken since by the Pakistani Army have forced it to alter plans to combat Taliban and Qaeda militants, Pakistani military...
The Face We Can’t Ignore: Women in Afghanistan
by Rafia Zakaria, Ms. Magazine, USA - What to do about the war in Afghanistan is posed as a question of military strategy, of defense expenditures, of logistical technicalities; of political climate, secret safe havens and effective counter- insurgency… but...
Tales from the Taliban
by Rebecca Conway, The National, United Arab Emirates - For nearly five brutal years, Ijaz fought in the Pakistan Taliban. Under a pseudonym, the former militant tells about his life as a Taliban fighter and what made him turn away...
The US’ Afghanistan Opening
by Beril Dedeoglu, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Afghanistan has caused serious difficulties for the US since the beginning of this country’s occupation. The reconstruction of the Afghan state hasn’t provided the expected results yet, and the Afghan crisis risks...
Using Feminism to Legitimize War
by Kristin Engh Førde, Kilden, Norway - The war in Afghanistan is a war to liberate women, supporters claimed. Eight years later the voices that spoke on behalf of Afghan women have fallen silent....
Kabul’s Women
by Sahar Saba, The International News, Pakistan - In a revealing report in 2008, Acbar said that $10 billion out of $25 billion the global community pledged to rebuild Afghanistan in 2001 had not even been delivered....
Can Saudi ties with the Taliban help stabilize Afghanistan?
By Mai Yamani, Daily Star, Lebanon - In his quest to stabilize his country, Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, dressed in white robes, arrived last week in Mecca on what can only be called a diplomatic pilgrimage....
What Will Deal with Taliban Mean for Afghan Women?
by Olivia Ward, The Star, Canada - Women's rights would face challenges in a Western peace deal with the Taliban....
How Much Is a Human Life Worth?
by Susanne Koelbl, Spiegel, Germany - The German-ordered bombing in Kunduz left behind dozens of widows and orphans. Now, survivors and relatives of the dead are looking for compensation. Some, though, worry that the money will fall into the hands...
If You Are Looking Down, Why Don't You See Me?
by Emilie Johnson, Emilie Johnson, France - "I promised my family I would come back for them, that I would take them with me. I have no contact with them. Imagine that, if you lost your family."...
Taliban Reopen Northern Front in Afghanistan
by Carlotta Gall, New York Times, USA - Far from the heartland of the Taliban insurgency in the south, this once peaceful northern province was one place American and Afghan officials thought they did not have to worry about...
If We Want Peace, We're Going to Have to Learn to Say No
by Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun, Canada - We live in a world where young men and women are trained as soldiers to kill, whether they're Canadian, American, Israeli, Palestinian or Taliban....
The Great Betrayal
by Nesrine Malik, New Statesman, UK - We were led to believe the war would liberate women, but new laws passed under President Karzai are as draconian as those of the Taliban....
The Taliban and Music
by Zubeida Mustafa, Dawn, Pakistan - In her latest book, The Case for God, Karen Armstrong describes music as ‘the limit of reason.’ She finds it inseparable from religious expression when religion is at ‘its best.’ We do not get...
Threats Cloud Afghan Women's Political Ambitions
by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, NPR, USA - Women in record numbers are seeking office in Afghanistan's presidential and provincial elections later this month. The participation is a major change in a country where women weren't even allowed to attend school...
Nigeria’s Mysterious ‘Taliban’
by Gaëlle Le Roux, France 24, France - Little was known about Nigeria’s Boko Haram when deadly clashes broke out in northern Nigeria in July. Also known as the “Nigerian Taliban”, the group emerged in 2004, and its aim is...
State of Confusion
by Kamila Hyat, International News, Pakistan - Support for the Taliban – which still lingers in some quarters – stems in part from the fact that they are unapologetic in their attacks on the US....
Pakistan's Most Damaging War Is the One It Wages Against Itself
by Ayesha Haroon, Daily Star, Pakistan - Pakistan is now a nation caught between its army and the Taliban, fighting a war not of its own making....
Trapped in Their Seclusion
by Zubeida Mustafa, Dawn, Pakistan - We are still being told that the people of Swat wanted Nizam-i-Adl because they are pious and orthodox. The fact is they wanted the Sharia since they believed it promised them speedy and impartial...
Youthink: Education for Displaced Children
by Nosheen Abbas, Dawn, Pakistan - Children in schools mean less on the streets and more hope for them to be able to put their potential to maximum use....
Obama Is Part of the Problem
by Fatima Bhutto, New Statesman, UK - War rages in the North-West Frontier and the poor are embracing the Taliban because they at least fix roads and discipline criminals. But if catastrophe is to be averted in Pakistan it is...
Youth Stand up to the Taliban Menace
by Nosheen Abbas, Dawn, Pakistan - The youth of Islamabad is not sitting idle in the face of growing religious extremism and Talibanisation in some areas of Pakistan....
Stop South Asia’s Talibanisation, Protect Women
by Amrita Nandy-Joshi, Counter Currents, India - Across the globe, women’s rights have been gained after years of political and social struggles. Yet these treaties are easily disregarded by the State as well as fundamentalists, both invoking local customs and...
Children of the Taliban
by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, PBS, USA - The city of Peshawar is on high alert. The Taliban are closing in, regularly attacking police convoys, kidnapping diplomats, and shooting foreigners. The fighting across this volatile region has driven thousands of families from...
Start of the Victory March?
by Kamila Hyat, The News, Pakistan - From Swat, where the ANP "deal" with the men of Maulana Fazaullah has meant they have effectively won in the area, the Taliban have fanned out to neighbouring Buner and Dir. Their promises...
The Phantom of a New Anarchy
by Harinder Baweja, Tehelka, India - If there is consensus in Pakistan, it is on the issue of how Pakistan’s support to the US is now leading to the country itself imploding. In fighting America’s war, Pakistan finds itself at...
Zia's Children
by Ayesha Siddiqa , The News, Pakistan - As the entire Pakistani nation watches video footage of a 17-years-old girl screaming on their television screens during the process of her torture at the hands of the brutal Taliban in Swat,...
The Human Cost of Fighting the Taleban
by Barbara Plett, BBC, UK - Pakistan's battles against the Taleban have displaced more than 500,000 people, leaving a humanitarian crisis. It is feared that US plans to intensify the war in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan could...
Did Anyone Ask Afghan Women?
by Patricia Lalonde, International Herald Tribune, France - The Afghan women I know cannot conceive of a ‘‘moderate’’ Taliban, not to mention negotiations with them. The Taliban are the Taliban, Islamists who advocate a fundamentalist and extremist ideology in which...
The Nightmare Must End
by Beena Sarwar, Dawn, Pakistan - Of the many challenges Pakistan's elected government faces perhaps the most menacing and deep-rooted is Talibanisation, a phenomenon identified earlier on by the then exiled Afghan government's acting foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah, on Sept...
Tribes Versus Terrorists
by Ashley Bommer, Today's Zaman, Turkey - The United States went into Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaeda. But seven years later, what has the US achieved? It has spent over $170 billion in Afghanistan, and yet al-Qaeda and the Taliban are...
The Importance of Being Political
by Beena Sarwar, The International News, Pakistan - As Pakistan continues to be rocked by suicide bomb blasts the calls by decision-makers for political engagement rather than military means to end the "war on terror" in Afghanistan reflects a major...
Tactics Versus Strategy in Afghanistan
by Myra MacDonald, Reuters, UK - Reading the latest spate of news reports about U.S. policies in Afghanistan, one thing strikes me as troubling — the failure to distinguish between tactics and strategy. Military boffins argue about the exact meaning...
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