20th January, 2012
France has suspended all military training and joint operations in Afghanistan after four French troops were shot dead by an Afghan army soldier in the country’s east.
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France mulls early Afghanistan pullout
Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2012
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Russia could deliver death blow to Nato, say analysts
Posted by seumasach on December 2, 2011
1st December, 2011
ISLAMABAD: With the Russian threat to cut land routes for supply to NATO troops in Afghanistan, the Afghan battleground may turn into a cold death trap for NATO, defence analysts believe. They say that Pakistan should utilise the opportunity for a peaceful and prosperous Pakistan by pulling it out of the American war.
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US told to vacate Shamsi base; Nato supplies stopped
Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2011
27th November, 2011
ISLAMABAD: Furious over the pre-dawn Nato attacks on border posts, the government on Saturday reacted sharply by indefinitely closing down supply routes used by western forces in Afghanistan and once again asking the United States to vacate an airbase previously used for drone operations. The government also said it would carry out a thorough review of its cooperation with the US and Nato.
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Pakistan closes key NATO supply route to Afghanistan after alliance’s airstrike
Posted by seumasach on November 26, 2011
26th November, 2011
Islamabad authorities said on Saturday they were closing one of NATO’s key supply routes to Afghanistan after the alliance’s airstrike in Pakistan, which killed 25 people, Pakistani TV channels said.
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Next stop is Pakistan
Posted by seumasach on October 5, 2011
Short of full-scale invasion of Libya by NATO, the only way to reverse the declining fortunes of their TNC proxy forces, the Libyan situation will soon go off-radar, a failed campaign, a memory to be obliterated by another hyped misadventure.Could it be in Pakistan?
Wayne Madsen
4th October, 2011
It looks as if Syria will have to wait now that – as Wayne Madsen points out – Washington’s priority is seizing Pakistan’s nuclear booty before, as the story goes, it falls into radical islamist hands. The only obstacle remaining was to create an environment acceptable to world public opinion that would justify a multinational intervention in Pakistan. Over the past year and a half, Washington has been attempting to do just that through a crescendo of uninterrupted provocations.
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USA loses its base in Kyrgyzstan
Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2011
12th Augiust, 2011
Kyrgyzstan is not going to prolong its agreement with Washington, which entitles the US to use Manas Transit Center to supply its forces in Afghanistan, after it expires in 2014, the republic’s Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev has said.
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Karzai urges Afghan terms for US ties
Posted by seumasach on July 27, 2011
27rth July, 2011
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will not sign a strategic partnership deal with the United States if the conditions set out by his country are not met.
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Pakistan, Iran become ‘natural allies’
Posted by seumasach on July 20, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
19th July, 2011
The participation by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in the two-day conference on terrorism held at Tehran on June 25 was invested with political symbolism as a mark of displeasure towards the United States. But Zardari’s return to Tehran within three weeks on a second visit on Saturday unmistakably carried the stamp of Pakistan’s “strategic defiance” of the US.
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Pakistan ‘punished’ in Pipelineistan
Posted by seumasach on July 12, 2011
Pepe Escobar
13th July, 2011
Before the end of 2011, Pakistan will start working on its stretch of the IP (Iran-Pakistan) gas pipeline – according to Asim Hussain, Pakistan’s federal minister for petroleum and natural resources. The 1,092 kilometers of pipeline on the Iranian side are already in place.
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Iran carves out an AfPak hub
Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
28th June, 2011
The participation of the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan in the international conference on terrorism held in Tehran over the weekend becomes a major diplomatic and political victory for Iran at the present juncture of regional politics. Both Asif Ali Zardari and Hamid Karzai were received by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.
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A summit in Tehran trumps the US
Posted by seumasach on June 22, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
23rd June, 2011
Almost directly in proportion to the nosedive in Washington’s ties with its allies in Kabul and Islamabad, Iran has stepped up its political and diplomatic activity over the Afghan problem and the regional situation. Tehran estimates that the United States’ relations with the Afghan and Pakistani governments have suffered a serious setback and a swift recovery is unlikely.
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