Web Directory

» Analysis: Pakistan's Tribal Frontiers
   The BBC's Rahimullah Yusufzai examines Pakistan's tribal borderlands where reports say Osama Bin Laden could seek refuge.
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1711316.stm

» Bush's War is the New Great Game
   Commentary on the current status of the campaign and on Washington's growing need to demonstrate global support and multilateralism. The Guardian, UK.
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jul/04/afghanistan.comment

» Crisis in Afghanistan
   The conflict explained from an Indian standpoint.
   http://members.tripod.com/~INDIA_RESOURCE/afghancrisis.html

» Crisis of Impunity - the Role of Pakistan, Russia, and Iran in Fueling the Civil War
   The essay published by Human Rights Watch in July 2001 explains the involvement of foreign nations in the conflict.
   http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/afghan2/

» Defense Establishment's Control of US Policy Poses Threat to Afghan Reconstruction
   Ahmed Rashid discusses the strong influence of the Department of Defense on US-politics in Afghanistan.
   http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav041002a.shtml

» Global Policy Forum: Afghanistan
   Security Council resolutions and other UN documents, a collection of articles, archive and links.
   http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/afgindx.htm

» Jackpot Afghanistan - Gas and Oil from Central Asia
   Article in Blue Print Magazine on natural gas and oil from Central Asia. Considers exploitation and transportation and outside interests.
   http://www.blueprint-magazine.de/oil/oil.html

» Media Monitors Network: Afghanistan, the Taliban and the United States
   Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed reviews the current crisis in its historical context to comprehend whether Western foreign policy toward the country has been formulated on the basis of humanitarian principles or not.
   http://www.mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq2.html

» Operations in Afghanistan
   Official UK Ministry of Defence site includes news, background briefings and Why We Are There along with maps, timeline, photo gallery, British force information.
   http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/InDepth/OperationsInAfghanistan.htm

» Russia Anxious Over Grip on Oil as US Firms Join Great Game
   Discusses Russian and US strategic and economic interests in Central Asia. Ben Aris and Ahmed Rashid for the Daily Telegraph, UK.
   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/1360391/Russia-anxious-over-grip-on-oil-as-US-firms-join-Great-Game.html

» Russia's Souring Strategic Perspectives in Afghanistan
   A comment on Russian influence on the power politics in the central asian country, by Ehsan Ahrari, CDI. US.
   http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/russia-afghanistan-pr.cfm

» The West is Walking Away from Afghanistan - Again
   The modernising forces are quickly losing ground to the warlords, while western governments refuse to deliver the cash they promised. The Guardian, UK.
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2002/jun/24/afghanistan.world

» UK and Afghanistan
   Official UK government site on the involvment in Afghanistan from the FCO, MOD, DFID and the Stabilisation Unit.
   http://afghanistan.hmg.gov.uk/

» UK in Afghanistan
   Official UK government site from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
   http://ukinafghanistan.fco.gov.uk/