Afghan men try to identify the dead bodies at a hospital after a bomb explosion near a school west of Kabul, Afghanistan. A bomb exploded near a school in west Kabul on Saturday, k...
Afghan men try to identify the dead bodies at a hospital after a bomb explosion near a school west of Kabul, Afghanistan.
An Afghan school student is treated at a hospital after a bomb explosion near a school west of Kabul, Afghanistan.
An injured school student is transported to a hospital after a bomb explosion near a school in west of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan school students are treated at a hospital after a bomb explosion near a school in west of Kabul, Afghanistan.
An injured school student is transported to a hospital after a bomb explosion near a school west of Kabul, Afghanistan.
An Afghan school student is treated at a hospital after a bomb explosion near a school west of Kabul, Afghanistan.
An Afghan school student is treated at a hospital after a bomb explosion near a school west of Kabul, Afghanistan.
An Afghan school student treated at a hospital after a bomb explosion near a school west of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan school students are treated at a hospital after a bomb explosion near a school in west of Kabul, Afghanistan.
An Afghan school student is treated at a hospital after a bomb explosion near a school west of Kabul, Afghanistan. A bomb exploded near a school in west Kabul on Saturday, killing ...
An injured school student is transported to a hospital after a bomb explosion near a school in west of Kabul, Afghanistan. A bomb exploded near a school in west Kabul, killing seve...
A U.S. flag is lowered as American and Afghan soldiers attend a handover ceremony from the U.S. Army to the Afghan National Army, at Camp Anthonic, in Helmand province, southern A...
Afghans wait outside the hospital to see their relatives in Kabul, Afghanistan. A powerful suicide truck bombing struck a guest house in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at l...
An Afghan army soldier stand guard as smoke rises from a burning fuel tanker on the Jalalabad-Kabul highway, east of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Security personnel remove a damaged minibus after a bomb explosion in Kabul Afghanistan. The bus attack caused numerous deaths and injuries according to police.
Locals inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. A powerful car bomb killed numerous people and injured dozens more in Afghanistan's west...
Security personnel inspect the site of a deadly bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. The bomb attached to minibus exploded in the capital, Kabul, killing and wounding several people....
Afghan women attend an event to mark International Women's Day in Kabul, Afghanistan.
A military helicopter flies over people during the Afghan Security Forces Exhibition, at the Darul Aman Palace in Kabul. The three-day military exhibition allowed civilians to have...
K.P. Nayar spells it out as the prime minister, Manmohan Singh prepares to visit Washington:
Notwithstanding New Delhi’s known opposition to bracketing India along with Pakistan and Afghanistan, there are many policy-makers in the Obama administration who believe that the US cannot win the war in Afghanistan unless they also push for a solution to Kashmir and that the problem of a failing state in Pakistan cannot be adequately addressed unless New Delhi and Islamabad are nudged towards a reconciliation...
...there is lack of comprehension now in New Delhi that the Obama administration intends to eventually legitimize the Taliban: what Washington is looking for is a way to put the best front on that eventuality and justify such an about-turn...
Read the full piece at the Telegraph
C. Raja Mohan adds:
...the cynical view of the prime minister’s visit to Washington is that it will be long on rhetoric but short on substance. But the unfolding developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan are too consequential for the national security of both India and the United States for their leaders to waste the opportunity for thinking at the highest levels about political cooperation on stabilising the north-western parts of the Subcontinent.
Read on at the Indian Express
Golnar Motevalli reports for Reuters:
Afghanistan's only known pig has been locked in a room, away from visitors to Kabul zoo where it normally grazes beside deer and goats, because people are worried it could infect them with the virus popularly known as swine flu.
The pig is a curiosity in Muslim Afghanistan, where pork and pig products are illegal because they are considered irreligious, and has been in quarantine since Sunday after visitors expressed alarm it could spread the new flu strain.
More here
This is perhaps also an opportunity to put in the joke received on SMS today: "They said pigs would fly if a black man became President. Well, swine flu."
