Written By Gol Ahmad Ehsan As Afghan forces prepare to take over from international troops, some residents of the troubled southern province of Helmand worry that they are not yet up to the job. After some areas including Helmand’s main town Lashkar Gah were transferred to Afghan control in July 2011, the second phase […]
Diplomatic Bubbles: Why Afghans are so averse to ISI now?
Diplomatic Bubbles: Why Afghans are so averse to ISI now? Saeed Minhas Islamabad: As a stunned diplomatic community in Islamabad is looking at the knee jerk reactions of the politicians and finding the over-arching institution of the country licking its wounds after a humiliating month of May, things continue to shape up in and around Pakistan […]
Latest Afghan Attacks Highlight Challenges of Training, Vetting Afghan Security Forces
By Marian Wang, ProPublica The news out of Afghanistan seems to be almost all doom and gloom: 8 NATO soldiers and one civilian [1] were killed today by a veteran Afghan army pilot who reportedly turned on his trainers. The Taliban has claimed credit for the shooting, playing into fears of Taliban sleeper agents […]
Uneasy Truce Holds in Afghan Valley
Alasay district, in Kapisa province northeast of the Afghan capital Kabul, is the scene of an unusual arrangement where local government officials and the Taleban turn a blind eye to one another. Recognising that neither side can defeat the other, the two have effectively decided to coexist as peaceably as conditions will allow. Taleban guerrillas […]
Taliban Pose Rising Security Threat in Afghan North
Earlier this year, bus driver Ustad Toryalai was able to drive round the clock along the highway from Kabul to Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan. The road, a key north-south supply route, was busy day and night with travellers, businessmen and international aid workers. For the past six months, however, Toryalai has not dared […]
Two blasts leave two killed nine injured in western Afghanistan.
Two blasts leave two killed nine injured in western Afghanistan. Five afghan civilians and three afghan national army personals were injured by a mine blast in western Farah province today. Farah police chief M.Faqeer Askar told media that a remote control mine hit a vehicle of ANA in Balal Bluk district injuring three soldiers and five […]
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