Afghanistan: US should change tactics not generals

Strategic affairs expert B Raman talks about Barack Obama's new man in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus and his predecessor General Stanley McChrystal and why the US needs to change its tactics......

Pak seeks greater role in Afghanistan; US wary

Pakistan has offered to play a central role in resolving the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan and hold talks with the Taliban, according to a report in the New York Times. At a meeting held at the......

Pak's posturing is a ploy to neutralise India

For most of the past 16 months, Pakistan has been on the defensive, unable to live down the fact that terrrorists and their handlers used its soil to carry out the November 26 terror strike on......

'Afghans must not see America as occupiers'

United States Senator John F Kerry says it is imperative that America not be viewed as "foreign occupiers" by the Afghan people. Kerry, chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee,......

An encounter with Brad Pitt: On screen and off it

'I don't give a f****. I am old enough now.''You just have to white-knuckle it and ride through it.''But really, who cares?''At the end of the day, just get on, feel the pain, embrace the suck.'......