Posted by seumasach on April 23, 2011
PressTV
23rd April, 2011
The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party (Justice Movement) organized a sit-in in the Peshawar city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to cut off the supply line of US-led troops in protest against the killing of people in the non-UN-sanctioned US drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas, a Press TV correspondent reported Saturday.
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Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
24th March, 2011
He can be disarmingly charming. Like any ethnic Uzbek. Plus he has cultivated a great sense of humor, especially the sardonic variety that is a Russian trademark, which sees you through adversities. He was trained in the tricks of his trade at the best professional schools in Moscow.
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Posted by smeddum on March 15, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
23rd February, 2011
The Barack Obama administration’s choice of Marc Grossman as successor to the late Richard Holbrooke, former special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, is significant for three reasons. If Grossman’s diplomatic career spanned Pakistan and the Afghan mujahideen at a time when Pakistan was a “frontline” state for the United States, his two stints in Turkey in a bygone era, including as ambassador, make him an “expert” on the strange workings of a political democracy run by the country’s military.
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Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2011
21st February, 2011
Historically they say whenever the British make sure that they are incapable of winning a war, they resort to tricks and try to buy the other side of a conflict to end misery.
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Posted by seumasach on February 14, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
15th February, 2011
The United States State Department has announced that the trilateral United States-Pakistan-Afghanistan meeting at foreign minister level, scheduled to take place in Washington on February 23-24, has been indefinitely postponed. Washington ascribes the postponement due to a cabinet reshuffle in Islamabad on Friday in which foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was replaced.
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Posted by seumasach on February 14, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on January 25, 2011
“Karzai is banking on a pan-Afghan alliance to support his audacious plan to reconcile the Taliban, and the US is using the ethnic card to unravel Karzai’s alliance system.”
“Washington finds Karzai increasingly acting as an Afghan nationalist rather than as a US surrogate.”
“Meanwhile, Karzai is making sustained efforts to develop ties with Iran and Russia, including military cooperation, so as to reduce his dependence on the US by the 2014 timeline. Moscow has proposed a key role for Kabul in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.”
“Washington is negotiating a new Status of Forces Agreement with Kabul but Karzai is resisting the US plan to keep permanent military bases.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
25th January, 2011
The United States’ proxy war against Afghan President Hamid Karzai has taken a vicious turn, undermining the tenuous political equations in the country. Washington is displeased with Karzai’s moves to accelerate reconciliation with the Taliban, while his pitch for a regional initiative and his agenda of a multi-vector foreign policy challenge US regional strategies.
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Posted by smeddum on January 16, 2011
They’re finally getting wise to the empire racket
One has only to look at today’s headlines at Antiwar.com to see the trend:
Another news story details the results of a survey which shows a dramatic turnabout, on the war: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on January 15, 2011
By Daily Mail Reporter
14th January 2011
A furious row has erupted in Whitehall after a former Kabul envoy claimed British commanders committed troops to war in Afghanistan because they feared cuts if they did not use them.
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles said he had been told by the former head of the Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, that if he did not re-deploy battlegroups coming free from Iraq he would lose them in a future defence review. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2011
Washington is, in essence, making a virtue out of necessity, which is of course good politics almost always. Ideally, the US would have liked Pakistan to robustly supplement the US war effort. But the heart of the matter is that if and when intra-Afghan peace talks begin stemming from a regional initiative by Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey (and, perhaps, grudging Iranian acquiescence), the entire US position will cave in and the Obama administration will find itself in an absurd and untenable position of adamantly insisting on pursuing a war which neither the Afghan people nor the regional powers want.
M.K.Bhadrakumar
11th January, 2011
The unscheduled visit by United States Vice President Joe Biden to Islamabad this week underscores Washington’s embarrassment and anxiety that it stands excluded from a regional initiative on Afghan peace process that could be about to take off. The rapid sequence of events over the past fortnight has taken Washington by surprise.
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