Archive for the ‘Afghanistan’ Category
Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2012
Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal
Opinion Maker
4th March, 2012
Now is the time for a paradigm shift in international approach towards resolving the Afghanistan issue. This is the moment for a healing touch; it’s time for the occupation forces to disengage and leave Afghanistan at its own. Left to itself, Afghanistan would normalize after some constructive aftershocks. International community has wandered in the wilderness to find a viable solution for Afghanistan. Too many cooks have indeed spoiled the broth. Everyone had been giving own vision and wisdom; hardly any one cared to incorporate the Afghan perspective and sensitivities to ever-changing recipes. Formulation of Afghan crisis still continues, emanating from lack of consensus on policy and objective. A late January Pew Research Centre poll indicates that 56 percent, of Americans want troops removed from Afghanistan as soon as possible, while just 38 percent believe the US should stay until Afghanistan is stabilized.
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Posted by seumasach on February 27, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
218th February, 2012
The killing in Kabul on Saturday of two high-ranking American military officials – a colonel and a major – serving with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will prompt a paradigm shift in regional security. Afghanistan surges as still America’s number one “hot spot”, over-shadowing Syria and Iran.
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Posted by seumasach on February 9, 2012
PressTV
9th February, 2012
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says all the eight people killed in a US-led aerial attack on the eastern province of Kapisa were children.
“The president strongly condemned the aerial bombing by foreign troops that killed a number of children in Nejrab district on Wednesday,” a statement released by the Afghan presidential office on Thursday read.
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Posted by seumasach on February 4, 2012
NATO Suggests Other Countries Start Paying for It
Jason Ditz
Antiwar.com
Every time NATO DMs meet on Afghanistan it’s a good bet that the plan is going to involve making the Afghan military even bigger. It has been a safe strategy, with the argument that it is making Afghanistan handle their own security woes.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2012
PressTV
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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Posted by seumasach on December 2, 2011
The News
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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Posted by seumasach on November 27, 2011
Dawn
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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Posted by seumasach on November 26, 2011
RiaNovosti
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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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
Voltairenet
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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Posted by seumasach on August 18, 2011
RT
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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Posted by seumasach on July 27, 2011
PressTV
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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