Tooryalai Wesa left Afghanistan in 1991 after serving as Kandahar University's first president. He worked at the University of British Columbia's agricultural expert in Canada. Hamid Karzai asked him to...
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The United States of America is trying to persuade its NATO partners to commit 10,000 additional troops for Afghanistan as part of President Obama’s strategy for the region. President...
After the recent spate of attacks and heightened security concerns the UN announced its decision to temporarily relocate 600 members of its international foreign staff based in Afghanistan. The international body...
A panel of UN experts announced that Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai had not won the August 20th election, due to pervasive election fraud. It was believed that Mr. Karzai received 54% of the vote, but the new findings stripped him nearly one million votes, pushing the...
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Ballots from five polling stations in Paktikan Province will be voided. A UN backed commission investigating fraud has found widespread election fraud. The polls, had an election turnout of 100% or...
The spring of 2006 I was on my third assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Providing professional development training for the Afghan men and women employed by the Department of State, I returned to a large newly built Embassy – one of the largest in the world. Embassy...
opinion by Teleos1 | 14 wks ago 294 views | 12 recommendations | 1 comment
The Independent Election Commission has released preliminary results of the Afghan election. With 10% of the vote counted President Hamid Karzai and his main contender Abdullah Abdullah are...
In a highly controversial move, President Hamid Karzai has returned General Abdul Rashid Dostum to Afghanistan from exile in Turkey.Dostum is linked in a large part to the Opium Trade and the alleged murder of...
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Set for Thursday, August 20, the Afghan presidential election is promising to be a serious test of democracy for Afghan people. But, amidst escalating violence and Taliban threats, will the election in Afghanistan...
opinion by Yuliya Talmazan | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago 153 views | 16 recommendations | 4 comments
No matter how much leverage you hold over a country, it is rare that you can get it to act against its core self-interest. The United States has struggled with this dilemma for decades in regards to its relations with Israel and South Korea. Self-interest based on the facts...
Afghanistan - Putting A New Coat on a Failed Strategy by Ron Jacobs I turned on the television Friday, March 27, 2009. It was tuned to C-SPAN. Barack Obama's speech on Afghanistan was being televised. Listening only to the words of his introductory comments and ignoring the...
opinion by raven_gale | 37 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago 80 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"America’s military policy is following its foreign policy which follows the smell of oil. Forget freedom and democracy. That’s for fools. Pakistanis are fooling themselves if they think President Obama will be able to change this. Let’s pray he does. The...
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Kabul, Afghanistan: Today in an operation in the outskirts Qalat city, the capital of Zabul province, the US Special Forces mistakenly opened fire at the Afghan Police, killed 6 and wounded 13 Afghan Police,...
opinion by imranthetrekker | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 40 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
" Arrested Militants: RAW, Afghan Agency Funding Pakistan Terrorism Pakistani investigators have made a major breakthrough and uncovered several leads that link terrorists and criminals inside Pakistan to the Indian intelligence and the secret...
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" The US-led NATO and ISAF troops hand over the responsibility for maintaining security in the Afghan capital Kabul to local forces. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the International...
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