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America’s Confused Approach to Afghanistan
6 hours ago ago from Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
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14 hours ago ago from CHUP! - Changing Up Pakistan
Mujahideen Fighters in Afghanistan, 1984. As the war in Afghanistan continues, so does the purported regional chess game between India and Pakistan . Below, Tariq Tufail , from Karachi, presents his views on Pakistan's evolving policy in Afghanistan: A huge shift in the U.S. Afghanistan policy is reportedly taking place. The London conference and the meeting in Turkey indicate that some degree of reconciliation and an ...
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2 hours ago ago from Pakistan Ka Khuda Hafiz
Jane Perlez ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan has told the United States it wants a central role in resolving the Afghan war and has offered to mediate with Taliban factions who use its territory and have long served as its allies, American and Pakistani officials said. The offer, aimed at preserving Pakistan's influence in Afghanistan once the Americans [...]
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6 hours ago ago from The Thunder Run
News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front. (New complete posts come in below) Dispatches: A World of Troubles: Second American reportedly kidnapped in Baghdad - Another American was reportedly kidnapped in Baghdad yesterday according to unnamed U.S.G. sources, and yet to be confirmed by the U.S. military or major news agencies. This follows a splinter group of the Mehdi Army claiming responsibility for the Jan. 23 ...
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19 hours ago ago from Atta ur Rehman's Blog
Chief of the Army Staff Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has offered to train the Afghan army and police. In diplomatic circles, particularly Western, the move was described as bold and daring. However, doubts were raised about its practicability in view of the past bitterness in bilateral relations. Gen Kayani made his offer at the recent annual Nato military commanders' conference in Brussels and then made it public in rare briefing sessions ...
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Pakistan Is Said to Pursue Role in Afghan Talks - NYTimes.com
3 hours ago ago from The New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan has told the United States it wants a central role in resolving the Afghan war and has offered to mediate with Taliban factions who use its territory and have long served as its allies, American and Pakistani officials said. I.S.A.F. via Associated Press Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal met in December in Kabul, Afghanistan. Related Times Topics: Pakistan ...
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16 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Politics Daily : Casting about in late 2001 for someone or something to replace the vanquished Taliban, President George W. Bush helped select Hamid Karzai, an Afghan exile, as the nation's new, moderate, pro-West leader. Bush introduced him to his new partner nation at the State of the Union address in January 2002, pledged U.S. support in rebuilding Afghanistan as a modern state with a strong central government in Kabul in control. ...
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19 hours ago ago from TIME.com - U.S.
SEARCH TIME.COM Full Archive Covers Videos U.S. Troops Prepare to Test Obama's Afghan War Plan By Mark Thompson / Washington Tuesday, Feb. 09, 2010 U.S. Marines on a security patrol in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan Tyler Hicks / The New York Times / Redux Share U.S. and allied commanders in Afghanistan are preparing for the biggest ...
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17 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
Casting about in late 2001 for someone or something to replace the vanquished Taliban, President George W. Bush helped select Hamid Karzai, an Afghan exile, as the nation's new, moderate, pro-West leader. Bush introduced him to his new partner nation at the State of the Union address in January 2002, pledged U.S. support in rebuilding Afghanistan as a modern state with a strong central government in Kabul in control. Eight years later, a ...
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9 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
NEAR LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan U.S. Army soldiers launched a preliminary operation Tuesday in support of a planned U.S.-Afghan attack on the largest Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan. NATO and Afghan officials, meanwhile, urged militants holding Marjah, where an offensive is expected, to lay down their arms and warned civilians there to "keep your heads down." About 400 U.S. troops from the 5th Stryker Brigade as well as 250 ...
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