Mon. October 06, 2008
Afghanistan:
The Post
October 6, 2008
The involvement of Indian agents in the troubled provinces of
Pakistan and
Afghanistan and its support to the anti-
Pashtun Northern Alliance has raised some ...
However, he said the Afghan government is in favour of negotiation to stop violence. The General Commanding NATO forces in Afghanistan called on Afghan ...
During 2007 and 2008, the record of raw Opium production in Afghanistan reached the level of an estimated 8200 tonnes. In the same period, the Taliban-led ...
New York Times
October 5, 2008
The coalition can assist in these reforms by "embedding" Western civilian experts in
law, government and business management at every level of the Afghan ...
July alone saw a brazen attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, the deaths of nine Americans at a combat outpost in Nuristan and the killing of 10 French ...
Although larger and more populous than Iraq, Afghanistan has fewer than half the coalition forces, and critical programs to advise the Afghan National Army ...
New York Times
October 5, 2008
Muncie Free Press
October 5, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - Coalition forces killed five enemy fighters in operations Oct. 3, targeting
al-Qaeda and
Taliban terrorist networks in eastern
Afghanistan. ...
In other operations in Afghanistan, one civilian was killed and four others wounded in the village of Matin in Pech District, Konar province, yesterday when ...
The Canberra Times
October 5, 2008
For what
the US might countenance unilaterally in its global campaign against
terrorism (albeit in simultaneously protecting
Afghanistan and those ...
Afghanistan's security, sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity are deemed particularly crucial areas for US-Afghan cooperation. ...
... of the UN Security Council aimed at undertaking reconstruction, nation-building and security stabilisation in cooperation with the Afghan government. ...
San Francisco Chronicle
October 5, 2008
They feature Jihadist songs, chants and stories of
Muslims being abused in US-run prisons at
Bagram Air Force Base outside
Kabul and
Guantanamo Bay in
Cuba. ...
These issue warnings or directions and are used to intimidate those who may cooperate with the Afghan government. Because the vast majority of Afghans are ...
Naseer Fayez, a well-known TV presenter in Kabul, was jailed for two days by Afghanistan's combined FBI and CIA, the National Directorate of Security, ...
In June, Afghan reporter Abdul Samad Rohani was killed in Helmand while investigating a story for the BBC on the opium trade. The Taliban, usually quick to ...
Death threats and intimidation are not limited to the provinces, though. Naseer Fayez, a well-known TV presenter in Kabul, was jailed for two days by ...
ABC Online
October 5, 2008
The patrol moves through the mud-brick village of Solt Magarb. "The
Australians are on patrol through largely agricultural area. People tending their crops. ...
The Taliban once controlled Uruzgan province with a vice-like grip, but now there are only pockets of resistance. Danger remains though, in the form of ...
Once this dusty corner of Uruzgan Province was teeming with Taliban, now coalition forces have driven most of them out. But Commander Dirago says the threat ...
"They are preparing for the winter season so at this stage they look to plant poppy seed which then gets incubated by the snow over winter," he said. ". ...
"I don't think you would ever say that any area in Afghanistan is free of Taliban. The Taliban influence on the area is greatly moved. ...
The New Nation
October 5, 2008
The recent (2006-07) creation of the United National Front (UNF) party - essentially a new incarnation of the old
Northern Alliance - Qed by former ...
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan rose from 104000 hectares in 2005, to 161000 hectares in 2006, to 193000 hectares in 2007, despite the fact that 13 ...
One reality is that ISAF has only some 47000 troops on the ground in Afghanistan, and not all of those are along the Pakistan-Afghan border. ...
Moreover, quite separately from anything which could be blamed on Pakistan, the Afghan Helmand province is home to a significant proportion of ISAF troops ...
Clearly, if the bulk of the Afghan economy is narcotics driven, then the ability of either the Afghan government or ISAF to control the situation is limited ...
... and weapons being offered, tantalizingly, by the new generation of minor and major Afghani warlords, or their own maliks, the tribal chiefs or elders. ...
Daily Times
October 5, 2008
Wardak province: Haji Mulla and 10 of his men - members of
Afghanistan's fierce
Taliban militia - are in heated discussion, their
guns against the wall of a ...
Civilians had also been killed and labeled 'terrorists', he adds. These are regular complaints in Afghanistan with hundreds detained in US military bases, ...
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guardian.co.uk
October 6, 2008
A soldier was killed and three others injured when their platoon entered a minefield in Afghanistan that was unmarked despite being identified as dangerous ...
Slate
October 6, 2008
If
Afghanistan and
Iraq have demonstrated one point over another, it is that the quantity theory of counterinsurgency is very unsoundly based. ...
Daily Times
October 6, 2008
CTV.ca
October 6, 2008
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says it's up to the
government of Afghanistan to decide if it wants to embark on a negotiated peace with the
Taliban. ...
Los Angeles Times
October 6, 2008
Sometime soon, seven years after it invaded
Afghanistan,
the Bush administration is expected to settle on a new policy to stabilize that still-fragile ...
San Francisco Chronicle
October 6, 2008
Now, though, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, the commander of the
United Kingdom's
military forces in
Afghanistan, has told the Times "that, in his opinion, ...
NDTV.com
October 6, 2008
Radio Australia
October 6, 2008
Australia's Defence Minister has backed a British brigidier's assessment that the war in
Afghanistan may not lead to a 'decisive military victory'. ...
Canada.com
October 6, 2008
OTTAWA - Afghanistan will never be completely free of an insurgency, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday, echoing the top British commander who said ...
Xinhua
October 6, 2008
By Abdul Haleem
Kabul, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) --
Afghanistan's Election Commission on Monday commenced voter registration for the upcoming presidential election ...
Hindustan Times
October 6, 2008
The
Afghan government said it was hoping for peace talks with the insurgent
Taliban movement but denied a media report that a first round of negotiations ...
Reuters UK
October 6, 2008
By Kristin Roberts WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
the United States has asked
Japan and
NATO allies who have refused to send troops to
Afghanistan to pay the ...
Wall Street Journal Blogs
October 6, 2008
With just four weeks left until decision day,
John McCain and his campaign kicked the week off by attacking
Barack Obama on
Afghanistan. ...
Christian Science Monitor
October 6, 2008
Washington - The military is expanding the number of
airplanes for reconnaissance and surveillance in
Iraq and
Afghanistan in response to demands from the ...
Indian Express
October 6, 2008
ABC Online
October 6, 2008
... Joel Fitzgibbon has raised concerns that the economic meltdown in
the United States will inhibit the number of troops the country sends to
Afghanistan. ...
Scotsman
October 6, 2008
the US has ramped up cross-border strikes that target alleged
al-Qaeda and
Taleban hideouts in
Pakistan's tribal regions bordering
Afghanistan. ave killed ...
Pakistan Dawn
October 6, 2008
By Our Special Correspondent
London, Oct 5: The UK's commander in
Helmand has dampened
Britain's hopes of a "decisive military victory" in
Afghanistan ...
Reuters
October 6, 2008
By Jon Hemming
Kabul (Reuters) -
Afghanistan began registering voters on Monday for elections due next year that will test support for President Hamid ...
Seattle Times
October 5, 2008
Kabul, Afghanistan - Mirza Kunduzai, 58, a slight man with a short white goatee, had almost reached his house after a day of trading in the capital's ...
WCOH
October 5, 2008
By Jim Riggio Clear Channel Online A magnitude 6.0
earthquake hit central
Afghanistan early Monday morning. The quake hit at 6:56 eastern standard time ...
Reuters
October 5, 2008
San Francisco - Republican vice presidential nominee
Sarah Palin called
Afghanistan "our neighboring country" on Sunday in a speech that could revive ...
Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck
October 5, 2008
... Services are volunteering their time to gather shipments of shoes, small
toys and personal items for civilians and
US soldiers in
Afghanistan. ...
Voice of America
October 5, 2008
Asian Tribune
October 5, 2008
the US spy agencies and forces in
Afghanistan had even collected 'proof' of leaks by the ISI of operations plans to the
Taliban. It needs mention here that ...
Canada.com
October 5, 2008
Cpl. Michael Farrah, 23, suffered head injuries when an
improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle in southern
Afghanistan. ...
San Francisco Chronicle
October 5, 2008
In a discussion of what to do in
Afghanistan, Palin said supreme commander of
US forces "McClellan did not say definitively the surge principles would not ...
New York Times
October 5, 2008
Both
President Karzai and Ahmed Wali Karzai, now the chief of the
Kandahar Provincial Council, the governing body for the region that includes
Afghanistan's ...
Telegraph.co.uk
October 5, 2008
By Con Coughlin The admission by the commander of British forces in
Afghanistan that the war against the
Taliban cannot be won will inevitably lead to ...
CBC.ca
October 5, 2008
Western forces in
Afghanistan will never be able to win the war against
Insurgents and may need to include the
Taliban in any long-term solution, ...
The Canberra Times
October 5, 2008
The
bombing of
Islamabad's Marriott Hotel puts into stark relief the clash of values between
Pakistan's sovereignty,
Afghanistan's security and the ...
Times Online
October 5, 2008
But
General David Petraeus will find pacifying the
Taleban a tougher job still Can the Petraeus magic work in
Afghanistan? is the question being asked in ...
TVNZ
October 5, 2008
Friends and family have gathered at Ohakea Air Force base this morning to see off a contingent of 129 Defence Force personnel to Afghanistan. ...
Ottawa Citizen
October 5, 2008
Letter writer Andrew MacDonald writes about wanting "stories that cast other lights on our motives from being there (Afghanistan) other than the ...
Telegraph.co.uk
October 5, 2008
The war in
Afghanistan cannot be won,
Britain's most senior military commander in the country has warned. By Caroline Gammell Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith ...
Aljazeera.net
October 5, 2008
Decisive military victory in
Afghanistan is impossible and the
Taliban may have to be part of a long-term solution for the country, the
UK's senior ...
Edmonton Sun
October 5, 2008
Taliban leader
Mullah Omar quickly rejected
Karzai's offer and claimed
the US was headed toward the same kind of catastrophic defeat in
Afghanistan that the ...
Hindu
October 5, 2008
Iran,
Syria and
Afghanistan had all been trying to get the seat. Early this month, Iran announced withdrawing from the competition and turning to support ...
New York Times
October 5, 2008
The day that happens across Afghanistan is the day we lose the war. With more than 230 military deaths since January, this year is on track to be the ...
