The Christian Science Monitor recently examined the subject of Afghan opium in the light of UNODC report for the year 2011 entitled, The Global Afghan Opium Trade: A Threat Assessment. Quite ...
A series of well coordinated attacks by the Taliban led to shock and awe in the high security zone of Kabul. Amid insinuations from foreign military commanders, emphasising that the Taliban had no ...
I.M.MohsinAccording to reports, Staff sergeant Robert Bales, who killed 16 innocent Afghan civilians, was very efficiently whisked away by the US high command in Afghanistan to a safe haven in ...
June ended as the deadliest month for the foreign troops, more so the US. According to ISAFs assessment, 103 soldiers got killed while many more were badly injured. Lacking missiles and air power, ...
On formally taking over the command in Kabul over the weekend, General David Petraeus showed a tremendous skill in the choice of words. Being a very learned man, he appears to be doing much better ...
AOL News last Sunday highlighted the insecurity pervading the G-8 Summit in Toronto, Canada. The meeting of the heads of rich eight countries drew, as usual, violent protests. It is indicated that ...
Robert Reid in a recent article entitled Bad news bares reality of Afghan War has revealed that Admiral Mike Mullen conceded that we all have angst about the Afghan war. The latters reaction to the ...
The subject of the article is part of a quote from the Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Sergei Ivanov. Attending a seminar in Singapore on regional security, he confided that his government was ...
A host of confusing signals is coming out of the US which reflect concerns to ensure its security. President Barack Obama announced, as usual, a nicely-worded doctrine which would anger the rightwing ...
President Karzai had serious discussions during his recent visit to Washington DC. In an attempt to raise his own profile at home after the ridicule heaped on him following the charges of rigged ...
The Afghan conundrum is becoming rather problematic for the Obama Administration. The latest opinion polls indicate that 52 percent Americans are upset at the costs entailed by the operation, as ...
The US administration and its forces in Afghanistan are seen as blowing hot and cold, perhaps, as a part of the new strategy adopted on the advice of General David Patraeus and General Stanley ...
Lately the US media has been more focused on wildly projecting the military operation in Helmand. Claiming to have wrenched Marjah, a small town out of the clutches of Taliban, the media went poetic ...
April, like the past month, has been marked by the US forces looking the other way. The news from the South, where a major blitz was propagated earlier on to be getting launched, has been marred by ...
The neocons prompted President George W Bush to attack Afghanistan on the basis of a suspicion that it had helped Al-Qaeda in the 9/11 tragic venture. Although the Taliban regime had asked for a ...
The Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in recent past, tried to change his tone which disturbed his mentors in the US. As expected, it was considered by the incumbent America administration as troubling ...
US President Barack Obama landed at the Bagram Airbase in Kabul, paying a surprise visit over the weekend after winning laurels in Moscow over the nuclear agreement with the hosts. He complimented ...
Nine years on, the Afghan War launched in October 2001 is like the Vietnam War after the 'Tet Offensive, a military campaign during the Vietnam War. The new strategy of the US forces looks like a ...
The payback for the atrocious policies pursued by the neo-cons appears to be on. General Stanley McC-hrystals much-vaunted new strategy in Afghanistan is running into the throes of a crisis. Starting ...
Pakistan remains mired in death and destruction for the last few years. The spate of attacks by the terrorists is like Sword of Dam-ocles for the people. The worst hit appears to be the areas ...
The top general from UK visiting the Helmand province of Afghanistan last week claimed that his troops would stay another five years, even though the military operation would trail off in ...
General David Petraeus calls the Marjah/Helmand operation, now into its second week, the opening onslaught. It is believed that by now 15 foreign troops have died, while US claims that the enemys ...
The operation code named 'Mushtarak, launched by the huge foreign forces along with some Afghan complement in Helmand has run into serious problems. Its projected aim was to provide security to the ...
The foreign forces appear to be pursuing confusing tactics to tame the enemy. Till about two months back, Karzai was a cheat and US and its allies had to find an aggressive way-out of the Afghan ...
The London conference held recently amid the momentous media blare ended with
an optimistic scheme. While wishing peace and justice to emerge in this tortured
trail, one cannot help thinking of the ...
President Barack Obama has finally proclaimed how his administration would handle Afghanistan. His deliberations were Greek to the neocons who had got used to the 'gut feeling approach, as assessed ...
The Taliban terror, which swelled following the increase of US forces in July to ensure a peaceful election, hit a new benchmark. After their success in defaming the election-process and its ...
Dick Cheney, George W Bush's vice president, struggling to stay on line like Palin, accused the president of 'dithering' over Afghanistan last Wednesday. Appearing to be under a spell of amnesia, he ...
The latest wave of terrorist attacks particularly in Islamabad, Rawa-lpindi, Lahore and Peshawar sent sordid shockwaves besides causing death and destruction. Understandably, the most appalling was ...
While the new strategy submitted by General McChrystal is being considered by the White House, things appear to be going awfully awry on the battleground. A recent AP report stressed that last year ...
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