Kandahar Governor Tooryalai Wesa Unhurt in Assassination Attempt

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...

U.S. seeks 10,000 additional troops from allies for Afghanistan

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...

Security concerns force 600 UN workers out of Afghanistan

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...

Afghanistan Election: Hamid Karzai Had not Won Due to Fraud

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...

Fraud commission excludes ballots in Afghan vote

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...

Private Security Agency Perverts in Afghanistan Kills USA Image!

 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...

Afghan election too close to call

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...

Warlord Returns to Afghanistan - Controversy - to support Karzai

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...

Afghan Election To Become A Potential Repeat Of Iranian Election?

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...

Talking to the Taliban

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

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...

Oil, Obama, And Pakistan

"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...

What burns Karzai up, Americans do not know that?

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,...

Arrested Militants: RAW, Afghan Agency Funding Pakistan Terrorism

" 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...

Afghan forces take over Kabul security

"  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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