Land grabs, by contrast, could be fatal. Few Afghans want Taliban rule, but the Taliban have astutely positioned themselves as defenders of the dispossessed. In Afghanistan, land is often the ...

A flight from Islamabad in Pakistan has arrived in northern Germany carrying dozens of at-risk Afghans. The German Interior ...

The Qosh Tepa Canal is intended to open up huge areas for agriculture in northern Afghanistan. The main canal could be ...

Afghanistan’s expanding urban population presents it with ... meeting this challenge will require expanding the amount of developable urban land by 6,959 km 2 – or just over 350 percent – between 2010 ...

Pakistan has been battling the scourge of terrorism for the past two decades. Since the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the relentless cycle of terrorism has continued. This is primarily due ...

Natural resources are the source of numerous fracture lines in Afghanistan and the wider region. The division of water at local and transboundary levels, disputes over land ownership, the regional ...

The country’s former tribal areas bordering Afghanistan are plagued by escalating militancy, leading to widespread ...