Posts Tagged ‘Karzai’
Is Karzai a Drug Addict? Did Galbraith Make Money in Afghanistan Too?
NBC News & MSNBC | 6 April 2010 Ex-U.N. envoy: Karzai may have drug problem Peter Galbraith questions Afghan leader's mental stability NEW YORK - A former U.N envoy to Afghanistan on Tuesday questioned the "mental stability" of Hamid Karzai and suggested the Afghan president may be using drugs. In an interview on MSNBC's "The [...]
Text of the Secret Eikenberry Cables Advising Against the Surge in Afghanistan
New York Times | Undated (Probably 25 January 2010) Ambassador Eikenberry's Cables on U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan Jump to: Start of Post | Cable 1: COIN Strategy | Cable 2: Looking Beyond COIN In November 2009, Karl W. Eikenberry, the United States ambassador to Afghanistan and retired Army lieutenant general, sent two classified cables to [...]
Indian Efforts to Win Afghan Hearts and Minds
Times of India | 11 January 2010 Winning Afghan hearts & minds with academia Afghan nationals today comprise the largest contingent of foreigners pursuing higher education in India. MUMBAI: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai often speaks fondly of the days he spent as a student in Shimla attending Himachal University. But what is lesser [...]
Afghan-Taleban on Obama’s Afghanistan Speech
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan | Voice of Jihad | 4 December 2009 Who Are Responsible for the Anarchy in Afghanistan? “...on the one hand, the White House Security Advisor James Jones says there are fewer than 100 Al-qaeda members in Afghanistan and on the other hand, Obama sends 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. This high gap between words [...]
Government map shows dire Afghan security picture
Reuters | Article by Paul Tait | 5 August 2009 The threat assessment map, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters, shows 133 of Afghanistan's 356 districts are regarded as high-risk areas with at least 13 under "enemy control." (more...)
The big lie of Afghanistan
Article | By Malalai Joya | 25 July 2009 Inquiries into the 954 deaths in police custody since 1990 have all proved fruitless – and then this historic case comes along In 2005, I was the youngest person elected to the new Afghan parliament. Women like me, running for office, were held up as an example of how the war in Afghanistan had [...]
India plays catch-up in the great game
Asia Times | By By M K Bhadrakumar | 18 July 2009 The Central Asian question is no more the same as it was in the 1990s. No one speculates anymore that it was inevitable that the region would descend into anarchy. However, the problems endemic to a critical period of state formation linger. The transition economies were just about switching [...]
McChrystal Digs In, Afghan Women Say Get Out
THE HUFFINGTON POST Rethink Afghanistan Robert Greenwald | Posted: July 13, 2009 01:10 PM Debunking the Myths About Women's Rights in Afghanistan Afghan women continue to face horrific violence, despite one of the oft-stated goals of this war. And yet proponents of the war continue to use recent incidents of rape, abduction, and brutality [...]
Governance Support: A Helicopter for Karzai
Danger Room Reports: Flat Panel TVs, Weak Defenses on Karzai’s U.S.-Bought Copter By Sharon Weinberger | July 6, 2009 | 12:04 am Wood paneling, leather executive chairs, wall-to-wall carpeting, and two flat-panel TV monitors attached to a DVD player. These are just a few of the amenities included in three VIP helicopters bought by the [...]
Outrage in Pakistan Over Images Taken as US Insult of the President
Zardari is no stranger to the corridors of power in America. Yet, while the few who see prospects of profiting from the enormous flow of American taxpayers' money that is envisaged in the wake of President Zardari's recent US visit -- US "contractors" (mercenaries), America's Pakistan "experts" (in the US and in Pakistan), and local go-betweens -- [...]
