Monsters do not get reflected in mirrors. But if by some miracle they did, Afghans would see in their mirror a whole line-up of tormentors. From Alexander to the Soviets, Americans and Pakistanis, ...

Like a tortoise shell on Asia’s back, Afghanistan lies athwart the spiny Hindu Kush mountains, sloping northward to the Oxus River and Russia, eastward to the Khyber Pass. Perhaps no land has been so ...

Whenever a foreign visitor sits down in the Kabul office of His Royal Highness Sardar Mohammed Daoud of Afghanistan, he invariably gets a lecture. Its subject: the $700 million in foreign aid Daoud ...

Three armies have been formed against Asim Munir. On one side, the Indian Army is poised for an attack. On the Afghan border, ...