19 November, 2009
Advice On Afghanistan
By Ralph Nader
Your staff estimates each U.S. soldier is costing $1 million a year, in addition to the horrific toll on these soldiers and the Afghan people. You owe the American people an un-Bush-like explanation. Why are you not receiving these groups of American from varied backgrounds and experience at the White House on this pending Afghan decision?
Rising Indian Influence In Afghanistan
Worries US And Pakistan
By Ajay Prakash
The top US military commander in Afghanistan has warned that India’s growing influence in the country could “exacerbate regional tensions” and encourage “countermeasures” by Pakistan, India’s historic rival in south Asia
11 November, 2009
US Is Doing No Good In Afghanistan
By Malalai Joya
As an Afghan woman who was elected to Parliament, I am in the United States to ask President Barack Obama to immediately end the occupation of my country
10 November, 2009
Romancing The Afghan Dragon
By Aetius Romulous
The strange relationship between opium and Afghan politics
09 November, 2009
US Pressing To Shore Up Security For
Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons
By Sherwood Ross
Washington has been negotiating secret and “highly sensitive understandings” to “provide added security for the Pakistani arsenal in case of a crisis,” investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports
Where Will They Get The Troops?
By Dahr Jamail & Sarah Lazare
As the Obama administration debates whether to send tens of thousands of extra troops to Afghanistan, an already overstretched military is increasingly struggling to meet its deployment numbers. Surprisingly, one place it seems to be targeting is military personnel who go absent without leave (AWOL) and then are caught or turn themselves in
05 November, 2009
America Is Performing Its Familiar Role Of
Propping Up A Dictator
By Robert Fisk
As in Vietnam, Karzai is going to rule over an equally tiny island of corruption
In Afghanistan, The Pentagon Digs In
By Nick Turse
The pentagon's building boom in Afghanistan indicates a long war ahead
03 November, 2009
Pakistan: The Long War
By Beena Sarwar
Pakistan is at war. The entire country is the battleground. The series of bomb blasts gained momentum as expected, in the run-up to Oct 17 when the army launched its ground offensive in South Waziristan. During the first two weeks of October, militant attacks killed over 150 people, including some 40 on a deadly Thursday in Lahore, Kohat and Peshawar
02 November, 2009
Why All The President's Afghan Options
Are Bad Ones
By Tom Engelhardt
The United States lived through all the phases of escalation, withdrawal, and defeat in Vietnam without suffering great post-war losses of any sort. This time we may not be so lucky. The United States is itself no longer too big to fail -- and if we should do so, remind me: Who exactly will bail us out?
31 October, 2009
Waging War Upon Ourselves
By Peter Chamberlin
It is easy to see why Pakistan has been chosen as the battleground of the century, but it is a real shame to us all that we have allowed our governments so much unsupervised freedom of action that they could get away with the things you are about to read about in the following article
Daring To Understand
By Maryam Sakeenah
I stand the risk of being misunderstood and misjudged. I do not condone the ongoing violent attacks in civilian areas all over Pakistan which victimize innocents. I cannot possibly justify them, nor can any human being in his right mind. But I think I can understand why. I can dare just that much
30 October, 2009
Taliban Take Over Afghan Province
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
The United States has withdrawn its troops from its four key bases in Nuristan, on the border with Pakistan, leaving the northeastern province as a safe haven for the Taliban-led insurgency to orchestrate its regional battles
A Must Read For Obama: An Afghan Travelogue
By Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Some excerpts from a recent account of Afghanistan by a visiting American
29 October, 2009
Pakistan Owes Much, But Not Suicide
By Firdaus Ahmed
No nation can be compelled to commit suicide even for the sake of supposed best interests of the international community
28 October, 2009
Pakistani Army Offensive Devastates
Tribal Communities
By James Cogan
The ongoing Pakistani military offensive into the tribal agency of South Waziristan is having a devastating impact on the entire civilian population. Villages and towns are literally being bombed into rubble and tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee for their lives
22 October, 2009
Pakistan Can Help Obama To Earn His
Nobel Peace Prize
By Javed I. Chaudry
It is highly unlikely that Obama can deliver peace for which he won the Nobel prize merely on the basis of his oratories and the political rhetoric. But, Pakistan can help him achieve exactly that by distancing itself from the so called war on terror
