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Adrenaline junkies embrace perilous specialties among Canadian troops
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 2 hours ago
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There's a breed of Canadian troops who are in a league of their own - adrenaline junkies who feed off the energy they get from embracing the world's most perilous jobs. In war-wracked Afghanistan, Canadian soldiers risk life and limb on a daily basis.
Tags: Dave Solaux, adrenaline junkies, Canadian, Afghanistan, canadian troops, canadian soldiers, Kabul, Taliban, War in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Bombs, Explosives, Improvised explosive device
Voting for failure in Afghanistan | Stephen Kinzer
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 2 hours ago
Credibility by winning a new term through fraud at the polls, President Hamid Karzai has weakened his legitimacy, endangered the already tepid support he enjoys in Washington DC, and handed the Taliban another piece of evidence, if one is needed, that his regime...
Tags: Afghanistan, American, strong central, electoral democracy, Kabul, Taliban, Iranian Plateau, Democracy, Politics
Report warns of Pakistan's younger generation losing faith in democracy
Wazīrābād :: Pakistan | about 4 hours ago
Credibility Pakistan faces a "demographic disaster" if its leaders fail to invest in a youth population that is disturbingly cynical about democracy, has greatest faith in the military and is resentful of western interference, according to a study published tomorrow.
Tags: Pakistanis, demographic disaster, Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan, Wazīrābād, Nawaz Sharif, Farahnaz Ispahani, Taliban, Pakistani politicians, Politics
24 rebels dead in Khyber, Bajaur, Waziristan agencies F.P. Report
Bara :: India | about 4 hours ago
Credibility The security forces repulsed the militants attacks in Gandu checkpost killing eight rebels, in Rah-e-Nijat operation five insurgents were shot dead while five more terrorists were killed in Ladha and six more terrorist were killed at Nawagai and Mamoond...
Tags: security forces, Khyber Agency, Nawagai, Bajaur Zakir Hussain, mamoond tehsil, operations rah, South Waziristan, Mamoond Quami Lashkar, India, Bara, Taliban, Bajaur Agency, Operation Rah-e-Nijat, Swat Pakistan, Politics, Waziristan, Al-Qaeda, War on Terrorism, War Conflict
US strike 'kills eight militants'
A suspected US missile strike has killed at least eight militants in north-western Pakistan, officials said, the second attack this week in an area believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border region....
Tags: Inter-Services Intelligence, missiles strike, War in North-West Pakistan, taliban militants, Politics, CIA, War on Terrorism, used strike, Waziristan, allnews, Taliban, Nowshera Virkan, War Conflict, Thursday, Yousuf Raza Gilani, Hamid Raza Gilani, Leon Panetta, Raza Gilani, Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, visiting CIA director Leon Panetta, Islamism, Pakistan, Ahmed Nawaz Dawar, War in Afghanistan
Afghan police are weak link in security force
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 5 hours ago
Credibility Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home. A strong, unified...
Tags: Afghanistan, police force, Ahmed Farid Hotak, Kandahar, security force, Kabul, Afghan National Police, Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Insurgency, Islamism, Iranian Plateau, War Conflict
Pakistan: Police arrest suspect in Taliban terror attacks
Islamabad :: Pakistan | about 8 hours ago
Credibility Pakistani police have arrested the alleged mastermind of a Taliban suicide attack on the United Nations' World Food Programme offices that killed five people in October. Islamabad police on Friday said they had captured Jamshed alias Tahir, allegedly...
Tags: pakistan, arrest, suicide attack, suicide attacks, suicide bombing, red, kalim imam, orakzai, Pakistani, Islamabad, Islamic terrorism, Islamism, Baitullah Mehsud, Lal Masjid, Taliban, Terrorism in Pakistan, Waziristan, War Conflict
The battle beyond the war zone
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 10 hours ago
Credibility The flashpoints of military action are distracting from the need to deal with the country’s poverty and corruption if its people are to live in peace. 'W HO do you think joins the Taliban?'' the Afghan engineer wants to know. Our interview, in a meeting...
Tags: Afghanistan, Clare Lockhart, Tarin Kowt, Kabul, Politics, War in Afghanistan, Taliban, War Conflict
Why Anti-American Militancy continues?
After the lapse of more than eight years, a ‘different war’ between the US-led state actors and the non-state actors continues unabated. It includes an unending wave of ambush assaults and suicide bombers in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Philippines,...
Tags: Occupied Kashmir., Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Philippines, Yemen, Kashmir and Palestine, Suicide attack, Anti-American Militancy, War Conflict, americans militancy, Politics, Muslim, Hillary Rodham Clinton, militancy continues, Abdel Aziz al Rantissi, Hamas, Sharon, United States, Aviv, Bin Laden, Lahore, allnews, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Pakistan, Taliban, Palestinian-Israeli, Islamic terrorism
Eight dead in US drone strikes in North Waziristan
A suspected US drone aircraft fired two missiles in North Waziristan on Friday, killing eight people, the second such attack this week.The attack was near Mir Ali, a town in the North Waziristan region."Eight people have been killed," an intelligence...
Tags: Eight dead, US, drone, strikes, North Waziristan miran shah, peshawar, war, terror, pakistan, afghanistan, allnews, Islamabad, South, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Drone attacks in Pakistan, War in North-West Pakistan, Airstrikes, Waziristan, War Conflict, War on Terrorism, Environment, North Waziristan
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