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I’m not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan. I am convinced we can… We are looking at a new, more comprehensive strategy for the region that would cover both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. In my view, these two nations are inextricably linked in a […]

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Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, acknowledged publicly August 12 that Taliban forces are using Pakistan’s border region as a base from which to launch attacks against U.S. and NATO troops occupying Afghanistan.
“There is support from these areas to Taliban activity inside Afghanistan,” said Musharraf in a joint appearance with Afghan president Hamid Karzai at the […]

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The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the […]

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The ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan is an unending war as its pinnacle where no one is able to surrender. Americans have brought so much carnage that they cannot leave the battlefield untill and unless stability starts to reside in Afghanistan again. Afghanis consists of Taleban supporters and Karzai supporters which includes the Northern Alliance, […]

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TO WHOM IT SHOULD CONCERN !
No Aid to Musharraf’s Dictatorship in Pakistan! No Arming and Training of Tribal Militias! We need funds for working families at home, not for reckless intervention. The United States is bringing Iraq to Pakistan. Modeled on the costly and dangerous experiment of training and arming Sunni militias in Iraq’s Anbar […]

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Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON - Continued U.S. backing of President Pervez Musharraf risks alienating Pakistanis and increasing extremism in the nuclear-armed Islamic country, cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan said on Tuesday.
Khan said he came to the United States “to try and convince the politicians in Washington that the policy they have adopted is a disaster for Pakistan and it […]

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Source: Dawn Editorial
THE report may be from a relatively unknown NGO but it makes eminent sense. Saying that Nato forces in Afghanistan are entering “a widening and deepening conflict”, the Afghanistan NGO Security Office (ANSO) warns that a few years from now 2007 will be looked upon as the year when the war in Afghanistan […]

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Source: The Guardian
Pakistan has as many paradigms as pundits. What is clear, however, is that meddling will only ever foment disorder
Simon Jenkins in Lahore

The Pakistani senator gazed at the headline in despair. It read: “US weighs new covert push in Pakistan”. Washington was authorising “enhanced CIA activity” in the country while US Democratic candidates […]

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