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Ashish Kumar Sen

Ashish Kumar Sen

asen@washingtontimes.com

Ashish Kumar Sen is a reporter covering foreign policy and international developments for The Washington Times.
Prior to joining The Times, Mr. Sen worked for publications in Asia and the Middle East. His work has appeared in a number of publications and online news sites including the British Broadcasting Corp., Asia Times Online and Outlook magazine.

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Pakistan’s Zardari to attend NATO summit in Chicago

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will attend the NATO summit, which begins Sunday in Chicago, his office said Wednesday, signaling that a deal is close on reopening alliance supply routes into landlocked Afghanistan from Pakistani ports.

May 16, 2012
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks May 8, 2012, during a joint press conference with Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna in New Delhi. (Associated Press)

Lawyer: Clinton to decide Iranian exiles’ fate after they move

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will decide on removing an Iranian dissident group from the U.S. list of foreign terror groups only after all its members have left a camp north of Baghdad, a Justice Department lawyer told a federal court Tuesday.

May 8, 2012
Sudanese President Omar Bashir is condemned by South Sudan's chief negotiator as not a man of peace. “He is a warmonger and a racist, and someone who is calling for genocide.” (Associated Press)

South Sudan envoy: Sudan is warmongering

A top South Sudanese official on Monday said Sudan is violating a U.N. ultimatum to halt the fighting that has brought the two African neighbors to the brink of an all-out war.

May 7, 2012
Blind dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng meets with wife Yuan Weijing, daughter Chen Kesi and son Chen Kerui at a hospital in Beijing on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. Gary Locke, U.S. ambassador to China, is at Mr. Chen's side, as is language attache James Brown (center background). (U.S. Embassy, Beijing, via Associated Press)

Obama ensnared in mystery of Chinese dissident

The Obama administration Thursday found itself on the defensive over its handling of a blind Chinese dissident at the center of a diplomatic firestorm between Washington and Beijing, as confusion over the fate of Chen Guangcheng only deepened in both capitals.

May 3, 2012
Afghan security men and NATO soldiers examine the scene of a militant attack in Kabul on Wednesday. A suicide car bomber and Taliban militants disguised in burqas attacked a compound housing hundreds of foreigners in the Afghan capital. The Taliban said the attack was a response to President Obama's surprise visit hours earlier. (Associated Press)

Obama’s deal with Afghans angers war opponents

The long-term partnership that President Obama signed with the Afghan government commits the U.S. to a role in the troubled nation for at least a dozen more years, leaving critics fuming over the uncertain costs of a conflict that already has stretched for a decade.

May 2, 2012
Residents try to extinguish fires in the smoldering remains of a market in Rubkona near Bentiu in South Sudan after an attack by Sudanese aircraft on April 23. A massive humanitarian crisis, triggered by the conflict and heightened by an approaching rainy season, is threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of people along the Sudan-South Sudan border. (Associated Press)

Sudanese conflict creates land of the lost

The "Lost Boys" of Sudan walked for months over punishing terrain and waded across rivers teeming with crocodiles to get to refugee camps in neighboring countries.

May 2, 2012
An Afghan policeman secures the area outside a compound after it was attacked by militants in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 2, 2012. (Associated Press)

Taliban announce start of fighting season

The Taliban on Wednesday announced the start of their spring fighting season, just hours after President Obama concluded a surprise visit to Afghanistan.

May 2, 2012
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir reviews an honor guard with Chinese President Hu Jintao during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The Obama administration has been working closely with Beijing to try to prevent a full-fledged war between Sudan and South Sudan, where bombs dropped overnight heightened tensions. (Associated Press)

Bombs on Sudanese border stoke war talk

The president of South Sudan on Tuesday accused Sudan of declaring war on his country after fighter jets dropped more than half a dozen bombs overnight in a border area.

April 24, 2012
A policeman walks past the smouldering remains of a market in Rubkona, near Bentiu in South Sudan, on April 23, 2012. A boy was killed and at least two people were wounded when Sudanese aircraft bombed the area, an official and witness said, increasing the threat of a full-scale war breaking out between the two nations. (Associated Press)

U.S. slams Sudanese incursion into south

The Obama administration on Monday condemned a Sudanese military incursion into South Sudan and called for the withdrawal of all northern militia from the south.

April 23, 2012
Afghan security forces rush to a battle in Kabul on Sunday, when militants launched a series of coordinated attacks across the city. The militant group Hizb-i-Islami, which walked out of peace talks last month, returned after their attack was foiled. (Associated Press)

Afghan militants return to peace talks

A militant group responsible for the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan has rejoined peace talks with President Hamid Karzai's government, and four other factions followed after Afghan security forces crushed an attack by terrorists in Kabul earlier this week.

April 19, 2012
Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, talks Feb. 20, 2012, at the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo. (Associated Press)

McCain hits peace talks with Taliban, troop withdrawal

The Obama administration's efforts to engage the Taliban in peace talks and its "fixation" on a 2014 deadline to withdraw all combat troops from Afghanistan have been "strategically debilitating" and signal that the U.S. has "lost the will for this fight," Sen. John McCain said Wednesday.

April 18, 2012
**FILE** Sen. John McCain (Associated Press)

McCain decries photos of soldiers with body parts

Photographs of U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of militants in Afghanistan are "deplorable and despicable," Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Wednesday.

April 18, 2012
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has signed laws that protect women's rights but also has made comments that have alarmed defenders of those rights. He ignited a firestorm last year when he attempted to bring all women's shelters under government control. (Associated Press)

Taliban talks terrify Afghan women

Women in Afghanistan are worried that the freedoms they have won since U.S. forces toppled the brutal Taliban regime 10 years ago will be squandered if the Islamic hard-liners return to power through a U.S.-led peace process.

April 17, 2012
**FILE** Nirupama Rao, India's ambassador to the United States (Associated Press)

Diplomat: India slowly cutting Iranian oil imports

India's ambassador to the United States said Friday it is unrealistic to expect the South Asian nation to cut its import of Iranian oil overnight but a reduction is gradually occurring.

April 13, 2012