Hindu-Kush

He stepped directly on top of Karzai's cronyism, showed his upper hand and used a dose of power play by halting thousands of oil tankers en route to Afghanistan for a month, consequently depriving millions of Afghans of heat in the frigid Hindu-Kush country.

Khalil Nouri: Afghanistan: The Karzai-Medvedev Russian Roulette Khalil Nouri 2011

He stepped directly on top of Karzai's cronyism, showed his upper hand and used a dose of power play by halting thousands of oil tankers en route to Afghanistan for a month, consequently depriving millions of Afghans of heat in the frigid Hindu-Kush country.

Khalil Nouri: Afghanistan: The Karzai-Medvedev Russian Roulette Khalil Nouri 2011

"Widespread mass losses from glaciers and reductions in snow cover over recent decades are projected to accelerate throughout the 21st century, reducing water availability, hydropower potential, and changing seasonality of flows in regions supplied by meltwater from major mountain ranges (e.g. Hindu-Kush, Himalaya, Andes)" (p. 49)

Bill Chameides: IPCC Slips on Himalayan Ice 2010

"When you hear the details, it's not that much different from young soldiers today fighting in the hills in the Hindu-Kush."

Korean War documentary, 'Uncommon Courage: Breakout at Chosin,' debuts 2010

Widespread mass losses from glaciers and reductions in snow cover over recent decades are projected to accelerate throughout the 21st century, reducing water availability, hydropower potential, and the changing seasonality of flows in regions supplied by meltwater from major mountain ranges (e.g. Hindu-Kush, Himalaya, Andes), where more than one-sixth of the world's population currently lives.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Nobel Lecture 2007

Speaking before an audience of West Point cadets, staff and guests on Tuesday, Obama avoided any reference to the United States promoting an ambitious Freedom Agenda that would supposedly give birth to a Jeffersonian democracy in Hindu-Kush.

Leon T. Hadar: Obama's New Afghanistan Strategy: The Same Old Pax Americana 2009

Key Findings from the Report and Statistics on the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region:

ICIMOD Press release 2009

General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, to the editorial page of the Washington Post, backed by many of the experts in both Republican and Democratic leaning think tanks -- are providing him with the same gadget they had handed to Bush in 2006 -- a military "surge" -- that would allow Washington to continue fighting in the mountains of Hindu-Kush for many years to come.

Leon T. Hadar: Obama Should Adopt the "Public Option" in Afghanistan 2009

Most of the species found in this ecoregion are wide-ranging species found throughout most of the high mountains or Tibetan Plateau of the Karakorams, Hindu-Kush, and Himalayas.

Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe 2008

Crossing the lofty barrier of the Hindu-Kush, Alexander led his weary soldiers into northwestern India, where a single battle added the Persian province of the Punjab [10] to the Macedonian possessions.

Early European History Hutton Webster