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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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While the international community is taking stock of the past one year’s developments in the annals of international terrorism and fundamentalism post-bin Laden, an interesting development takes place in Pakistan. A young man of 30 named Farman Shinwari, earlier active commander with Harkat-ul-Mujahideen known for its Kashmir activities, is appointed head of Pakistan wing of Al Qaeda...
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA | 03.05.2012 |
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It is increasingly apparent that the US will maintain a sizeable military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014… Washington has also resuscitated the New Silk Road project, which is an important dimension to the post-2014 scenario…: Afghan-Pakistan trade and transit agreement…; Uzbek and Turkmen supply of electricity to Afghanistan; new rail connections being built between Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan; new rail line from the Uzbek border to Mazar-i-Sharif; progress in the negotiations over a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project; India’s iron ore project in Hajigak in Afghanistan; bids by American companies in the upcoming six mining tenders in Afghanistan (3 in copper, two in gold and one in lithium); creation of the Border Management Staff College in Dushanbe and the Customs Training Facility in Bishkek, and so on...
Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR | 03.05.2012 |
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The United States and its Western allies have championed the secession of certain aspirant nations whose independence is in the national and economic security interests of globalization... Similarly, the West... led the charge for South Sudan’s secession from Sudan. South Sudan is now a virtual colony of Western non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are financed by the George Soros/U.S. Agency for International Development nexus, which are representing the interests of Western oil companies eager to exploit the new nation’s vast petroleum reserves. The NATO/Gulf Cooperation Council alliance that intervened to overthrow Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has permitted, without military intervention, the eastern region of Libya, Cyrenaica, declared the “Emirate of Barqa” by Salafist Wahhabi Muslims on the payroll of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, to declare its autonomy from the transitional government based in Tripoli... In Pakistan, the West has been covertly supporting Baluchi separatists who have carried out terrorist attacks on Iran...
Wayne MADSEN | 21.03.2012 |
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Developments in past few weeks provide enough indication that India-Pakistan relations have changed significantly mainly owing to a sea change in the mindset of leaders of both the countries. Mutual understanding on various complex issues such as Kashmir, free trade regime and cross border trade clearly reflected the increasing pragmatic nature of relations...
Aurobinda MAHAPATRA | 09.03.2012 |
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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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News | 17.02.2012 |
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Roughly 34 thousand civilians lost their lives in Afghanistan as a result of «mistakes» committed by NATO servicemen. On February 4, 2012 a new UN report saw light saying the number of civilians killed and injured in the Afghan conflict has risen for the fifth year in a row. The 2011 Annual Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict said civilian deaths from air strikes in support of the Afghan government rose in 2011. «Afghan children, women and men continue to be killed in this war in ever-increasing numbers», said Jan Kubis, UN Special Representative for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...
Andrei AKULOV | 13.02.2012 |
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The 26 th November attack by US gunships on Pakistani military posts at Salala, along the Pak-Afghan border in Mohmand tribal agency, killed 26 Pakistani soldiers and brought the relationship between the two “strategic partners” to a low point perhaps lower than any other point in the long and chequered 60-year old history. The anti-American feeling that pervades Pakistan’s body was further inflamed...
Najmuddin A. SHAIKH | 31.12.2011 |
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The US-Pakistan relationship steadily going for the worse is an issue that hits the radar screen of world media outlets... The Shamsi Air Base incident exacerbated the situation to the boiling point... Pakistan has vowed to close permanently the U.S.-NATO logistics routes through which a major part of supplies needed for the Afghanistan war effort must be transported... The deployment of air-defense systems along the border with Afghanistan to counter US air strikes is an intention declared... The USA responded by withholding about $800 million in aid to Pakistan's armed forces... What now?.. Russia has threatened to cut off the NATO supply routes to Afghanistan if there is no deal on the missile defense in Europe...
Andrei AKULOV | 19.12.2011 |
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