Emergencies Taking a Deadly Toll in Badakhshan

Medair Afghanistan’s harshest winter in 15 years leaves families struggling to survive. A series of recent avalanches have killed more than 90 people in Badakhshan province, an extremely isolated mountain region in northeast Afghanistan. While relief efforts continue...

To the Chinese and the Indians go … the spoils of war

The New Zealand Herald, by Jonathan Owen and David Randall, Monday Mar 19, 2011 The money and blood pit that is Afghanistan – where the United States and Britain have spent more than 2100 lives and £302 billion ($580 billion) – is about to pay a dividend....