By ASIF HAROON RAJA
WHILE the US leadership is desperate for peaceful resolution of Afghan imbroglio and a face-saving formula guaranteeing safe exit, it doesn’t have any road map. Half-baked plans lacking in sincerity of purpose are bound to boomerang. The US of late has slightly tilted towards Pakistan since no other player in Afghanistan [...]
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THE Taliban in Afghanistan reject a London-based report which depicts the relationship between them and Pakistan's intelligence agency as being "strong."
The London School of Economics (LSE) claimed the relationship between the Afghan Taliban and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is greater than previously estimated and that the intelligence agency "orchestrates, sustains and strongly influences the [...]
By GARETH PORTER
WASHINGTON: A Special Operations Forces raid on Feb. 12 on what was supposed to be the compound of a Taliban leader but that killed three women and two Afghan government officials demonstrated a fatal weakness of the U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan: after eight years of operating there, the U.S. military still has [...]
TALIBAN militants say they have shot down a NATO helicopter in the troubled southeastern Afghanistan amid mounting causalities for the US-led forces there.
At least four people have been killed in the fatal incident that took place in Zabul province on Friday.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmedi claims the group has been [...]
By STEPHEN LENDMAN
AFTER General Stanley McChrystal took charge of US/NATO Afghan forces last June, systematic atrocities escalated sharply after promises of kinder, gentler killing (an oxymoron), winning hearts and minds, and fewer civilian casualties as a “paramount” objective – now much higher the result of more than a fourfold increase in night raids, targeting civilians, [...]
BY DAVE LINDROFF
THREE months after it initially lied about the murder by US forces of eight high school students and a 12-year-old shepherd boy in Afghanistan, and a month after it lied about the slaughter by US forces of an Afghan police commander, a government prosecutor, two of their pregnant wives and a teenage daughter, [...]
PEOPLE in Afghanistan have protested against the killing of civilians by the US-led forces.
Protesters took to the streets in the eastern province of Kunar on Monday to condemn the killing of ten Afghan civilians by American troops.
They also demanded that the perpetrators of the attack be brought to trial. The US army earlier claimed [...]
The Ministry of Defence has been accused of ordering a “truth blackout” over the war in Afghanistan amid warnings it is attempting to “bury bad news” during the election campaign.
By ANDREW GILLIGAN, The Daily Telegraph, London
The blackout is likely to be seen as a response to the increasing outspokenness [...]
Statement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan regarding monopolization of activities of Mass Media Outlets by the Puppet Administration.
By Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
March 03, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- According to international media reports, the Kabul Puppet Administration have warned media outlets not to publish or transmit live reports of events without obtainment of prior [...]
By MUHAMMAD NAWAZ KHAN VERDAG
GOING by what transpired in the London Moot of January 28, 2010, the Afghan premiership and its western allies have commonly fathomed that negotiated settlement with the fanatically purist Talibs is indeed the cooperative path out of the morass after nine years of often directionless drift. Centrality of the message is [...]
