KABUL - Afghanistan’s outgoing defence minister Abdul Rahim Wardak abruptly resigned on Tuesday after parliament demanded his ouster but President Hamid Karzai kept him on in an acting capacity.The move by Wardak, who has strong support among Afghanistan’s Western allies, comes at ...
While a UN inquiry report blames President Pervez Musharraf's military regime for an inexcusable failure to protect Benazir Bhutto from assassination, it also provides a damning account of the role of her party in providing backup security for its leader. The three-member independent commission ...






