Posts Tagged ‘Pakistan’
CIA’s Heads of State
Time Magazine | By Bobby Ghosh | 28 October 2009 Who's Who on the CIA Payroll: A Brief History of CIA Assets Allegations that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother worked for the CIA are a reminder of a long list of distinguished and not-so-distinguished assets There was little surprise among Afghanistan experts and longtime CIA watchers [...]
Planning for the Next War
TomDispatch | By Tom Engelhardt | 2 March 2010 Iraq remains a mess from which the U.S. military seems increasingly uninterested in withdrawing fully and Afghanistan a disaster area, but it’s never too soon to think about the next war. The subject is already on the minds of Pentagon planners. The question is: Are they focusing on how to [...]
Advani: India’s Talks with Pakistan a “Self-Inflicted Insult”
Indian Express | By Agencies | 2 March 2010 Govt's U-turn on Indo-Pak talks was at US nudge: Advani Terming the UPA's stand on Indo-Pak talks as a "self-inflicted insult", he said the only outcome that seemed to have emerged from the recent Foreign Secretary-level talks was that they will stay in touch. "Our Foreign Secretary called the [...]
British Intelligence on Ayub Khan’s Generals (1966)
Business Recorder | 27 February 2010 Declassified British Intelligence About Pakistan Army: CHANGES IN THE HIGH COMMAND REF: DO 196/316 2-INT/RAW.6/60/1 British High Commission, Rawalpindi. 5 May, 1966 M.K.Ewans, Esq., Common wealth Relations Office, S.W.1. Dear Ewans, Would you please refer to my letter 2-INT/RAW.6/60/1 of 28 [...]
On Afghanistan — From the Green Beret Who Trained Mulla Omar
Times | From Anthony Lloyd, Rawalpindi | 23 February 2010 Colonel Imam: ‘I have the Green Beret but the Taleban beret is better’ Perhaps no man alive knows Mullah Omar, his Taleban insurgents and the American military quite so well as “Colonel Imam”, a battle-creased Pakistani officer who wears a faded British paratrooper’s [...]
American Bribes Flowing from Kabul to Dubai
Washington Post | By Andrew Higgins | 25 February 2010 Officials puzzle over millions of dollars leaving Afghanistan by plane for Dubai KABUL -- A blizzard of bank notes is flying out of Afghanistan -- often in full view of customs officers at the Kabul airport -- as part of a cash exodus that is confounding U.S. officials and raising [...]
Notes on the US Budget for FY2011 as it Affects Afghanistan and Pakistan
This review of the U.S. President’s FY2011 budget request reflects two underlying concerns: (1) how much of the U.S. taxpayers’ money is being provided for military and diplomatic expenditures in the main theaters of war; and (2) how long can the United States sustain these levels of spending, and at what cost? While these questions are not [...]
Indians See Gain in U.S. Induced Rift between Pakistan Army and Afghan-Taleban
Times of India | 20 February 2010 Pak crackdown on Taliban with eye on Af role? NEW DELHI: The alacrity with which Pakistan has acted against the Taliban in the past few weeks, leading to the arrest of Mullah Omar’s number two Mullah Abdul Baradar among several others, has left many wondering if this is just a ploy by Islamabad to assert its [...]
Ethnic cleansing in Afghanistan
Press TV | By Yvonne Ridley | 15 February 2010 As I write this, two NATO rockets have just slaughtered around a dozen innocent Afghan civilians during the latest military assault in the war torn country. Ordinary Afghan men, women and children are paying the blood price for a war launched by politicians from the West. Soldiers, including [...]
Fox News: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Captured in Karachi; Taleban Deny
Fox News | 15 February 2010 Top Taliban Military Chief Captured in U.S.-Pakistani Raid The Taliban’s top military commander was captured in a joint operation by U.S. and Pakistani forces in Karachi and is being questioned in the same city, sources confirmed to Fox News late Monday. See: Taleban Denial Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is the [...]
