Spain to reinforce military presence in Afghanistan

Nation building

By: ahadsarkar

Nation building Nation building is a nebulous term, at best, and a code word for foreign domination, at worst. In the two cases in which the US has engaged in such activity in our region the results have so far been fairly disastrous.Iraq, of course, was not supposed to be an exercise in nation-building but a liberation that would flower ...

about 1 month ago

U.S. commitment to Afghanistan not open-ended -Gates

By: tayyabt80

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan, currently under presidential review, was not open-ended, putting more pressure on Kabul to improve security and fight corruption. President Barack Obama, in the final stages of a review expected to add tens of thousands more U.S. troops to the stalled ...

18 days ago

Fight Afghanistan in Shifts

By: Johnsammon

Personally, I think it’s hopeless, though our military leaders use vague terms like we’re making “progress,” we need to “turn it around”---what that is we never know because with these double-speak phrases they never specify, or we’ve “turned a corner,” or there’s a “light at the ...

about 1 month ago

157 Afghan nationals to Afghanistan,officials

By: ashrafuddin

LANDIKOTAL: Pakistani officials at Torkham border deported 157 Afghannationals to Afghanistan here late Tuesday night.The deported Afghan nationals had been detained by police whiletraveling without valid documents in Pakistan,border officialssaid.Pakistani officials handed them over to Afghan counter part atTorkham border

about 1 month ago