Posts Tagged ‘pakistan’

Pakistan and Soviet Union Prove Afghanistan Not Vietnam 2.0?

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War, india, pakistan on 12 March 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Barack Hussein Obama, China, Drone Attacks, drones, Hiranmay Karlekar, mujahideen, pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, taliban, The Daily Pioneer, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Viet Cong with Comments

Many critics have posed the U.S. Mission in Afghanistan as U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama‘s Vietnam – a quagmire he cannot win and will ultimately end up marring his legacy along with the reputation of the United States of America, however very few people have come outright to state that Afghanistan may not be Obama’s [...]

Suddenly Responsive Pakistan Captures Half of Afghan Taliban Leadership

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, News, Opinion, War, pakistan, prince on 24 February 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Inter-Services Intelligence, ISI, Mullah Abdul Qayoum Zakir, Mullah Abdul Raouf, Mullah Ahmed Jan Akhunzada, Mullah Muhammad Hassan, NATO, pakistan, Quetta, Quetta Shura, taliban, Wahid Muzjda, who oversees the movement’s military affairs with Comments

In recent weeks, Pakistan, referred to as The Taliban‘s Godfather, has suddenly apprehended a good number of Afghan Taliban leadership. By Pakistani accounts, the nation has now captured 50% of the Taliban’s leadership council.
This is certainly intriguing, if not entirely disconcerting, news from a nation that has long been accused throughout the world of supporting [...]

Khalilzad : Reconciliation With Taliban Requires Security and Capable Government

In Afghanistan, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 20 February 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Editorial, Iraq, Negotiations, New York Times, Opinion, pakistan, Reconciliation, Reintegration, taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad with Comments

Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad wrote an Op/Ed for Thursday’s New York Times about the possibility of reconciliation and reintegration of the Taliban within Afghan society.
To Khalilzad, like many others, for Karzai’s push towards reconciliation and reintegration to prove successful, the Taliban must realize that they are on the decline as [...]

Gorbachev : In Russian ‘Best Interest to Counter’ Afghan Threats

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 5 February 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev, New York Times, pakistan, Perestroika, Russia, September 11, Soviet Union, taliban with Comments

Former leader of the Soviet Union (and one time Louis Vuitton coverboy), Mikhail Gorbachev published an Op/Ed in the February 04, 2010 issue of the New York Times. In it, Gorbachev details U.S., Soviet and Pakistani involvement in Afghanistan since the 1979 Soviet invasion of the Central Asian nation.
The justification Gorbachev attributes to the Soviet [...]

Ramy Zamzam ‘Jihad is not Terrorism’

In Afghanistan, Crime, DC, Islam, News, Opinion, Politics, pakistan, religion on 4 January 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Ahmed Minni, al qaida, Aman Yemer, Ameer Abdullah Rokhri, Associated Press, DC, Facebook, Howard University, Huffington Post, jihad, Mianwali, pakistan, Ramy Zamzam, Sargodha, terrorism, Umar Farooq, Waqar Hussain, Youtube with Comments

The statements of terror suspects Ramy Zamzam and Ahmed Minni are particularly troubling when one considers the fact that these young men have been accused of reaching out to militant groups through American created online social networking websites.
As the Pakistani allegations of the suspects’ use of social networking sites to reach out to militant groups [...]