Shorttitle: The business of import and export of suicide bomber in Pakistan slowly developed. In 2008, in Bhakkar District of Southern Punjab, a suicide bomber was hired and used in settling a political dispute. In Tank District and Waziristan, several suicide bombers academies are recruiting bombers and export them in and outside the country. Moreover, recent revelations of a teenager Punjabi Taliban are more frightening. The arrested suicide bomber in a Dera Ghazi Khan District hospital confirmed the presence of more than 350 to 400 suicide bombers in Mir Ali District of North...

Oil and gas exploration in Afghanistan diverted the attention of international community towards the mineral resources of the country. From 1960 to 1980, about fifteen oil and natural gas fields were discovered in northern Afghanistan. In 2008, Russia sought to extend its gas pipeline to Europe. War between Pakistan and India in Afghanistan, civil war in Pakistan and Afghanistan created some difficulties in exploring the natural resources of Afghanistan. Afghanistan and Pakistan finalized a new Afghan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement(APTTA)which allows Afghan trucks to carry export goods to...

The creation of an Afghan National Army was part of the agenda of international conference in Germany in 2002. International community agreed that Afghan National Army would be ethnically balanced but in 2002, as an Afghan Defence Minister, General Qasim Fahim made some appointments on ethnic bases. The list of all appointed 100 generals indicates that,90 generals belonged to Northern Alliance. Ethnic rivalries within the Afghan National Army is the most serious issue facing NATO allies and Afghanistan. Several ethnic incidents, political appointments, sub-conflicts and...