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Return from Herat: Wherein One Pessoptimist Meets Another From a Tuesday, August 21, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Tue, Aug 21, 2007 8:53am PDT
Afghan refugees flood back home Hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees are returning from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran, some after more than 25 years. The BBC's Alastair Leithead reports from a refugee centre north of the capital, Kabul....
Posted: Mon, Aug 20, 2007 7:19am PDT
New Taliban Media Savvy KABUL — The current South Korean hostage crisis has shown a more media savvy Taliban than the regime that ruled Afghanistan for years before being toppled by US-led troops in 2001, experts agree....
Posted: Sun, Aug 19, 2007 10:13am PDT
Chinese-American Doctor Returns from Afghanistan Originally From New America Media
Sunday, August 19, 2007 :SAN FRANCISCO – A Chinese-American doctor who has just finished a one-month stay in Afghanistan has returned to the Bay Area, reports the Chinese-language Sing Tao Daily. Albert Chan, a pediatrician at the University of California, San Francisco, was part of the Medical Teams International group who went to Kabul’s CURE hospital, one of the few remaining hospitals in the area....
Posted: Sun, Aug 19, 2007 10:05am PDT
Foreign woman seized in Kabul Saturday, August 18, 2007 : A German woman is seized at gunpoint from a restaurant in the heart of the Afghan capital, Kabul....
Posted: Sat, Aug 18, 2007 8:34am PDT
German Social Democrats and Greens seek increase in Afghanistan troop levels Thursday, August 16, 2007 :Although two thirds of the German population are against the presence of German troops in Afghanistan, the German government is determined to extend its mandate, increase the number of soldiers involved and even possibly expand the deployment of troops to the violently contested region in the south of the country....
Posted: Thu, Aug 16, 2007 7:56am PDT
Breakthrough on Korean Hostage Issue in Afghanistan? China Role called Crucial The USG Open Source Center translates a broadcast of GEO television, the privately owned Pakistani satellite channel, regarding a possible breakthrough on the crisis provoked when Taliban took South Koreans hostage. For video on this issue, see the previous post on the release of two hostages....
Posted: Thu, Aug 16, 2007 7:54am PDT
Germans 'killed in Afghan blast' Wednesday, August 15, 2007 : A blast kills three German nationals in a convoy on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, Kabul, police say....
Posted: Wed, Aug 15, 2007 7:29am PDT
From Guns to Cereal, Military Dominates Pakistan Tuesday, August 14, 2007 : Sixty years ago, Pakistan emerged on the map. British India was split in two, with Pakistan representing a Muslim majority distinct from its Hindu neighbor, India. Upon independence, the British Indian Army was also divided up and Pakistan received a larger share of soldiers than it could feed....
Posted: Tue, Aug 14, 2007 10:03am PDT
Taliban Claims To Capture Mizani District From Afghan Police From a Tuesday, August 14, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Tue, Aug 14, 2007 10:00am PDT
Ahmadinejad tells Karzai he supports the political process in Afghanistan Tuesday, August 14, 2007 : Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has told his Afghan counterpart during a one-day visit to Kabul that Tehran is not arming the Taliban....
Posted: Tue, Aug 14, 2007 9:41am PDT
Afghanistan's 'Peace Jirga' Ends with Declaration Monday, August 13, 2007 : For the past four days, hundreds of tribal elders from Afghanistan and Pakistan gathered in Kabul for an assembly called a jirga. The aim was to forge a consensus on dealing with the growing strength of the Taliban. But the jirga's final declaration was long on generalities and short on specifics....
Posted: Mon, Aug 13, 2007 7:36am PDT
New York Times on Failure in Afghanistan From a Sunday, August 12, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Sun, Aug 12, 2007 11:47am PDT
Civilian death toll rises in the bloody battle of Helmand When British troops are pinned down by the Taliban, they call in a US air strike. But the huge bombs don't just kill the enemy - they destroy innocent families, increasing hostility towards the coalition...
Posted: Sat, Aug 11, 2007 10:06pm PDT
Musharraf will attend peace jirga Saturday, August 11, 2007 : Pakistani president agrees "in principle" to address conference's closing session....
Posted: Sat, Aug 11, 2007 9:37am PDT
Pashtun Nationalist Leader Calls on Afghan Taleban to Renounce Violence From a Saturday, August 11, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Sat, Aug 11, 2007 9:31am PDT
How the United States makes Pakistan more radical Friday, August 10, 2007 : There is little doubt that those allies of the Bush administration who have signed up to the "war on terror" were quite relieved when they heard that General Pervez Musharraf had managed to suppress the Red Mosque revolt in Islamabad recently, even if that meant that dozens of students had to be killed in what seemed an unbalanced shootout....
Posted: Fri, Aug 10, 2007 7:39am PDT
Afghanistan: Tribal council aims for dialogue Friday, August 10, 2007 : Pakistani and Afghan delegates discuss efforts to combat border region instability....
Posted: Fri, Aug 10, 2007 7:28am PDT
Embroiling China in War on Terror ISLAMABAD — The recent attacks on Chinese nationals in Pakistan, especially after the bloody Red Mosque commando operation, are aimed at driving a wedge between the two allies and embroiling China into a conflict with anti-US forces, intelligence officials and security analysts believe....
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2007 6:35pm PDT
'Peace Jirga' in Afghanistan to Draw 700 Leaders Wednesday, August 8, 2007 : On Thursday, some 700 Afghan and Pakistani tribal elders and local leaders will gather for an unprecedented meeting to see if they can close an ever-widening gap over security, the Taliban, al-Qaida and even the long-disputed border between the two countries....
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2007 6:30pm PDT
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