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The signing of the strategic partnership agreement by the United States President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai becomes a historic landmark in the geopolitics of Central Asia...The sum total of Obama’s message is that the US is going to stay put in Afghanistan for at least another decade.
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR | 09.05.2012 |
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The two-day trilateral summit of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, which concluded in Islamabad on Friday, has exposed the fault lines in the Afghan peace process... There is recognition today that the Barack Obama administration’s Afghan ‘surge’ at best produced patchy results that are not sustainable and the Afghan forces’ capacity to shoulder the responsibility for security is in doubt... To be sure, Taliban sense victory. And so does Pakistan...
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR | 19.02.2012 |
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In March, 2009, US President B. Obama announced a plan to withdraw the US forces from Afghanistan in 2011-2014. In the meantime, though, the US troops in the country grew in size to reach 100,000 by the spring of 2011, and the actual preparations for the withdrawal began in February, 2011... A series of developments that took place over the past several months in Afghanistan added uncertainties to the situation around the US withdrawal from the country. The US special forces killed Usama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011, but the raid triggered a string of political assassinations in Afghanistan...
Viktor KORGUN | 20.12.2011 |
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The Americans are currently and will in future use Afghanistan based facilities to carry out drone attacks on both sidesof the Pak-Afghan border in Eastern Afghanistan. Currently such attacks may have the tacit consent of the Pakistanis but after the recent deterioration of US-Pak relations this may no longer hold true. Will the American raids stop?Will Karzai in these conditions stand by his earlier assertion that if the USA attacks Pakistan Afghanistan will stand with Pakistan? Will a strategic partnership survive such a rupture?..
Najmuddin A. SHAIKH | 09.12.2011 |
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The world’s attention is focused on the American air attack on two Pakistani check posts that resulted in the death of 24 Pakistani soldiers and officers and serious injuries to another 13. It is a tragedy that given the many incidents of the last year –notably the raid on the Pakistani city of Abbotabad to kill Bin Laden and the exponential increase in Drone attacks - may be the final straw on the camel’s back and may bring about an irrevocable break in US-Pak relations...
Najmuddin A. SHAIKH | 29.11.2011 |
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What is not contested is that Ahmad Wali’s untimely death will add another layer of high uncertainty to the political and administrative turbulence that now prevails in Afghanistan. Ahmad Wali was indisputably, from the Afghan perspective, the master of all he surveyed not only in Kandahar but also in much of Southern Afghanistan. From the American perspective Wali was always a favourite of the CIA having been on their payroll from early on and the man they depended on for providing safe houses, security guards and intelligence on Al-Qaeda and the Taliban...
Najmuddin A. SHAIKH | 15.07.2011 |
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The NATO forces have so far been unable to completely dismantle the Taliban structure... There seems that the Taliban has already a shadow government which is further consolidating the gains acquired by the Taliban forces and their supporters... in this long drawn war, the situation has appeared murkier, with no end of war in sight, and with Taliban appearing rejuvenated...
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA | 16.02.2011 |
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