/CORRECTED REPEAT*/POLITICS: Pakistan’s Offensive, Afghanistan’s Risk
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Commentary By Killid Correspondents*
KABUL, Oct 13 (IPS) – For generations, Pakistan’s southern Waziristan region has been a launching pad for insurgent military operations in Afghanistan
During the Soviet invasion of this country, Mujahiddin used the area as a staging ground for attacks on Russian soldiers. [...]
POLITICS: Pakistan’s Offensive, Afghanistan’s Risk
Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS
Commentary By Killid Correspondents*
KABUL, Oct 12 (IPS) – For generations, Pakistan’s southern Waziristan region has been a launching pad for insurgent military operations in Afghanistan
During the Soviet invasion of this country, Mujahiddin used the area as a staging ground for attacks on Russian soldiers. [...]
POLITICS: U.N. Infighting Threatens to Upstage Afghan War
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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 8 (IPS) – The increasingly deadly battle between Western military forces and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan is on the verge of being upstaged by a growing political brawl between two senior U.N. officials overseeing the battle-ravaged South Asian nation.
”The accusations [...]
AFGHANISTAN: Fighting Reinvigorated Taliban Needs Regional Plan
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Zeina Khodr*AJ/IPS
KABUL, Oct 7 (IPS) – As U.S. military strategists consider whether to send additional troops to Afghanistan, there is little doubt among many Afghans and government officials that the Taliban has resurged with increasing strength and expanded its influence across the country.
Gen Stanley [...]
OBAMA’s NIGHTMARE: CONTRADICTIONS IN AFPAK POLICY
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By M RAMA RAO
New Delhi: As President Obama is getting ready for a midcourse correction to his AfPak policy, he and his advisors must come to grips with the very basic features of the policy that has brought a new nightmare to the Americans. The policy has [...]
OBAMA’S AF-PAK TROIKA FAILS TO DELIVER
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By B.Raman
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers32/paper3186.html
US policy-makers had hoped that the taking-over of Gen. David Petraeus as the commander of the US Central Command, and Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the US Commander in Afghanistan working under Gen.Petraeus would bring about a more proactive strategy to weaken the Taliban and create a [...]
Obama Stuck between Wars on Iraq, Afghanistan
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By Nicola Nasser*
It was extraordinarily questionable why U.S. President Barak Obama chose not to credit the War on Afghanistan with a separate paragraph in his speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations on September 23, to “note” the war on Iraq with only a four – line [...]
AFGHANISTAN-US: Military Translators Risk Low Pay, Death
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By Pratap Chatterjee*
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (IPS) – Murtaza "Jimmy" Farukhi was killed while on patrol with the U.S. Marine Corps on Sep. 9, 2008, at the age of 23. He was not a soldier, but a local translator employed by Columbus, Ohio-based Mission Essential Personnel [...]
AFGHANISTAN-US: Govt Withholds Information About Bagram Detainees
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By Danielle Kurtzleben
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (IPS) – The U.S. government continues to withhold even the most basic information about prisoners in the Bagram detention facility in Afghanistan, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a New York-based legal rights organisation.
An April 2009 ACLU [...]
U.S.: Pro-War Officials Play Up Taliban-al Qaeda Ties
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Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) – U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strategy of full-fledged counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan, are claiming new intelligence assessments suggesting that al Qaeda would be allowed to return to Afghanistan in [...]
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