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Ingenuity, Film and Social Media Combine to Save Lives from Landmines [Video]

Massoud Hassani grew up on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, near a desert filled with unexploded mines left by foreign armies. As a child he would build cheap wind-powered toys and race them across the desert with his frien...

by Richard Scott-Jones

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Construction workers at a site of the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline.

Reading Beyond the Iranian-Pakistani Pipeline

Oil & Gas Pipelines: Geopolitics in the Making The announcement of the construction of the 1600 Km Iranian-Pakistani gas pipeline didn’t fail to create a true sensation in the world of politics, let alone in the corr...

by Mohamed Belarbi

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The Land of G(l)ory

When I was in 7th grade, I read an article about an Afghan girl who was married away to a man 40 years older than her. She was ‘given’ to him as ‘baad’ – a custom where a girl is presented as compensation by the perpe...

by Bindu Doddahatti

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Women in the Afghan National Police Force {Pictures}

As the training of the Afghan National Police Force continues, statistics show that women currently make up only 9% of Afghan police recruits, even though women represent half the population of Afghanistan. Many male officers...

by Natasha Lipman

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Defining Narco-Terrorism

‘Narco-terrorism’ like the phrase ‘War on Drugs’ is a phrase that, despite being coined several decades ago, has only gained widespread usage in the past few years. Appearing with greater frequency in the media, the ter...

by Harry Booty

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National Security’s Cameo

Having been cast to the wayside in a way that it hadn’t been during the previous two presidential elections, eleven years after the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, the topics of National Security and Terrorism have ...

by Laura Casey

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The Final Pledge: Afghanistan’s future at the Tokyo Conference

[twitter style="horizontal" source="@intlpolitical" float="left"] [fbshare type="button"] It is undeniable that the recent Tokyo Conference on the reconstruction of Afghanistan into 2014 is shrouded by a cloud of pessimism. E...

by Jessica Trevis

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A Dysfunctional Marriage

Some relationships require marriage counselors. These counselors come in many forms. They can be close friends or even a professional whose sole aim in life is to resolve issues in relationships; these people are known as thera...

by Hasan Rizvi

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