The mountains and deserts of Afghanistan claimed both the British Empire and the Soviet Union in the past. Many historians have now added the US to the list as Afghanistan is now America’s longest ever war, longer than both WW1 and WW2 combined. Afghanistan has claimed a superpower every century for the past two centuries and US is likely to become its 21st century victim. US president Donald Trump recently announced his strategy for the...

The origin of the modern oil industry lies in the middle of the 19th century, when a group of American businessmen hired Professor Benjamin Silliman Jr. to investigate whether a thick black substance that bubbled up in various springs and salt mines in Pennsylvania known as “Rock Oil” could be used as a fuel for oil lamps. Silliman studied the Rock Oil and learned that through a process of distillation a fluid could be extracted...

By Adnan Khan The British Geological Survey report, published June 27 2013, suggested the country could have as much as 64 trillion cubic meters of shale energy within its shores.[1]  Shale energy continues to make global headlines as the development of new technologies in extraction and drilling have made previously unrecoverable energy resources now recoverable. The shale gas energy revolution has changed the face of the energy landscape in the US. Natural gas production in...

The mountains and deserts of Afghanistan claimed both the British Empire and the Soviet Union in the past. Many historians have now added the US to the list as Afghanistan is now America’s longest ever war, longer than both WW1 and WW2 combined. Afghanistan has claimed a superpower every century for the past two centuries and US is likely to become its 21st century victim. US president Donald Trump recently announced his strategy for the...