"It is extraordinary to see the US begin to make the same mistakes in Yemen as it previously made in Afghanistan and Iraq." We are the Awaleq Born of bitterness We are the sparks of hell He who defies us will be burned This is the tri menu_book

In the past decade and a half we remained engaged in Afghanistan. What we did not do was a close and realistic observation of our engagement and investment in men and money into that country and the implementation of hundreds of projec menu_book

The issue of the BSA has been in the news for so long. There have been analyses and commentaries on the subject. Many of these comments lacked a scrutiny of the psychology of the issue. Well this article looks at that aspect. Presid menu_book

In December 2001, the United States well aware of the fact that the establishment of a democratic system of government in Afghanistan would not come about free of cost, committed itself to providing financial assistance to Afghanist menu_book

Afghanistan is an important country, strategically located with huge untapped and priceless resources for an energy and raw materials hungry world. The world needs peace in Afghanistan and Afghanistan needs hel menu_book

A little over four months left in Karzai's rule, he tries to show metal. All along until recently Karzai was a tame team player. President Bush liked him a lot. President Obama liked him cautiously with some reservations. So did menu_book

Afghanistan has entered into a phase in its life that is of utmost importance for its place in history and its immediate and far fledged future as well as meeting the needs of its population that has had more than their share of misery, wa menu_book

Feelings of a first hand observer of the situatons in Afghanistan: Facts that you read below, come out of the work of courageous and fearless journalists who are strong enough to stand up inthe middle of a large crowd of job seekersin Kabul menu_book

Every day brings us closer to April 2014, a month set for Afghanistan's presidential elections. Friend and foe alike are interested to see what is in the making for this country that has lived a most turbulent life for the past over menu_book

This article is an attempt tobring to fore important aspects of the issues related to the proposed talks among the Afghan government, Taliban and the US. Of special importance is the Pakistani stand regarding these issues. The offic menu_book

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This paper tries to throw some light on the Afghan government, its failure in corruption control, the historical background to the lack of an effective system to deal with the country's problems and the part p menu_book

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Afghanistan and the United States have entered into an "Enduring Strategic Cooperation Agreement." The agreement called for the establishment of a US-Afghanistan Bilateral Commission to work on details of implementation of the menu_book

Reports from a number of central and eastern provinces of Afghanistan indicate establishment of a grassroots movement against Taliban's tyranny. They further report successes achieved by the movement in a number of villages fro menu_book

Should one be worried about Afghanistan's situation beyond 2014? Why and why not? These are some interesting questions that need more than a commentary to explain. However this paper scratches the surface of the problems the coun menu_book

-- Last week's Berlin meeting of a group of warlords with an American law maker has stirred surprise and discussions on the interference of others in the affairs of Afghanistan. An interference that is illegal, dangerous and injurious menu_book

Afghanistan watchers are wondering already what would be in the cards for Afghanistan when Nato and other international forces leave the country and when Karzai's second term as president comes to an end in 2014. menu_book

Is killing Taliban a good idea? Intensified military activity has failed, argueJohn BraithwaiteandAli Wardak. It's time for a ceasefire 07 December 2011 TEN years ago, a conference in the German city of Bonn agreed on a roadmap � the Bonn Agr menu_book

From the perspective of a political observer it is so interesting to look at Afghanistan while you recall the fictitious Jumanji game as depicted in the film of the same name. The result of moves of the pieces on the board could only be destru menu_book

The signing of a strategic treaty with the United States is an issue of great importance and perhaps Karzai thought it was too big a decision for him to make by himself or together with a parliament that is still to f menu_book

Read the full document in PDF STATE AND NON-STATE JUSTICE SYSTEMS IN AFGHANISTAN: THE NEED FOR SYNERGY By: ALI WARDAK* INTRODUCTION The long Afghan conflict has resulted in an extensive destruction of Afghanistan?s state justice institu menu_book

Policy wise the US finds itself at an important crossroads when its conflict in Iraq comes to a definitive end and its desire to pull out of Afghanistan has prompted preparations to that end. At this juncture menu_book

Even before Indian independence in 1947 and the official recognition of Pakistan by Afghanistan, Indians looked at Afghanistan with awe and admiration. Earlier in 1919, King Amanullah of Afghanistan had managed to fight th menu_book

Literally, there are hundreds of things the Afghan government has not done and there are hundreds more that it has done in a wrong way. Apparently, people in government faced with the hard realities say: if we had.... Because " If we had..." is no so menu_book

In Afghanistan, the U.S. military disposes of garbage in open burn pits. Are toxic clouds from these sites making everyone sick? Guernica Magazine / By J. Malcolm Garcia August 18, 2011 Their shelves hold Army pants, boots and knives menu_book

Complex, convoluted, mixed up, confused, upside down, checked and awaiting a mate could be some of the adjectives one could easily use in relation to the situations in Afghanistan. Situations that you would expect a strong menu_book

Perhaps in the beginning, Afghanistan was considered an easy, short term project where American and its allied troops could go in, clean up the country of all threats of terror, defeat centers of terror and safe havens for Al-Qaida, and le menu_book

As expected the time has come that the United States is making its decision about withdrawing some of its troops from Afghanistan. While it would be a welcome step had there been a complete success of the war on terror in Afghanistan and Pakis menu_book

Is Iran a friend of Afghanistan? Iranian government says it is. Afghan government leaders tend to agree just for the sake of diplomacy while deep down they might think differently. It is true that there are some Afghans who materially benef menu_book

Afghanistan is located between two governments on its east and west that claim they are her friends. Actually they are not. While the people in Pakistan and Iran have been friends of the Afghan people and have extended their help to millions of menu_book

It is almost a decade that Afghans have waited for situations in their country to improve: security to be maintained, the war on terror fought and won by a coalition of international forces, the economy to improve, unemployment rates, now well menu_book

Another secret was exposed of the inefficiency of the Afghan Government. Karzai's government has been talking to an imposter as the Taleban second in command. For months rumors had it that the Afghan gover menu_book

The blame game, hypocrisy and false claims for credit have become the law of the land in Afghanistan. Power, on the other hand, has corrupted the already corrupt system of government. All the powerful, or the so-called leaders menu_book

There is a need for mature politics and mature politicians to work hard to find a realistic solution to the complex Afghan dilemma. Has any one done any serious work on removing many of the problems Afghanistan is facing? And what would be menu_book

By Walter Mayr The NGO community in Afghanistan has grown into an industry where a large part of aid budgets is spent on security, and money gets frittered away on pointless projects. Afghans are becoming increasingly skeptical about the foreign menu_book

The recent changing of the commander at the helm of the military operations of the United States showed the world that there are problems with our war on terror in Afghanistan. Could it be that we have consistently only seen our own side of menu_book

By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON � The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan wa menu_book

The Consultative Peace Jirga in Kabul was a daring undertaking by the government of Afghanistan. Its resolution was praised by the United Nations as well as the US government. As is the case in similar situations, some have shown pe menu_book

At this time that a flurry of activity is undertaken by the Afghan president Karzai, mending, confirming and expanding his relations with the West, a true economic development project namely extension of railway service from Central Asia to menu_book

By MIRWAIS KHAN, Associated Press Writer KANDAHAR, Afghanistan � A suicide bomber detonated his cache of explosives late Sunday near the gate of an Afghan Border Police residence in Kandahar where insurgents are waging a campaign of targeted menu_book

By Aram Roston This article appeared in the May 10, 2010 edition of The Nation. April 21, 2010 Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. In Napoleon Bonaparte's day an army may have marc menu_book

The war in Afghanistan has claimed the lives of 120 people and injured over 100 more over the past week. On Sunday, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said dozens of civilians were killed in another week of carnage. He menu_book

The commander of NATO-led operations in Afghanistan says he has doubts about Afghan forces ability to secure the war-weary country by 2015. German General Egon Ramms believes that the timetable set for Afghans to take over security will not menu_book

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has appointed a new election commission chief, ahead of the upcoming parliamentary vote in the war-weary country. Karzai appointed Fazel Ahmad Manavi as the chairman of the Independent Election Commission (IEC). menu_book

As Afghanistan continues to struggle with militancy, NATO says a roadside bomb has killed two more US-led soldiers in the country's volatile south. The nationalities of the soldiers have not been disclosed yet. The deaths bring the number of menu_book

An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale has struck an area in central Afghanistan about 67 miles (107 km) southeast of Mazar-i-Sharif. The quake occurred at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 km) at 12:58 local time (2028 GMT) on Sunday, 124 menu_book

President Karzai of Afghanistan plays a complex game of politics in deciding to talk peace with the insurgency. He should consider the many faces of the die before tossing them in this delicate and complex game. Politics is menu_book

A Taliban-Kabul deal must protect women's rights - U.N. Fri Feb 5, 2010 11:32pm IST GENEVA (Reuters) - Any future peace deal between the Afghan government and the Taliban should include a clear commitment to respecting women's rights, a United menu_book

The New York Times February 5, 2010 Op-Ed Contributor Afghanistan is in turmoil, with tensions rising and people dying every day. Many of them � including women, children and the elderly � have nothing in common with terrorists or militants menu_book

The London Conference came and went. It gave President Karzai of Afghanistan green light to go on with some of his proposals. But there are many questions as to the practicality of those plans that still depend on regional powers, nei menu_book

Washington Post on August 28, 2008 carried an article titled: " Only a Two-Page �Note' Governs U.S. Military in Afghanistan." The title alone points to the complications that can arise when you carry out military operations anywhere without a c menu_book

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Taxpayer's Money Going To Insurgents? By Aram Roston December 22, 2009 As President Obama prepares a massive military buildup in Afghanistan, a House subcommittee has launched an investigation into whether Defense Department contractors are pa menu_book

By: Aram Roston November 12, 2009 "The Nation" On October 29, 2001, while the Taliban's rule over Afghanistan was under assault, the regime's ambassador in Islamabad gave a chaotic press conference in front of several dozen reporters sittin menu_book

By Press TV Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:47:38 GMT The British army has been relocating Taliban insurgents from southern Afghanistan to the north by providing transportation means, diplomats say. The diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymi menu_book

Part You Must, With the Earth You Love, As You Plan Descending, From the Above. Promised in Books, Sacred to All, Shaping the Land, As You Do Fall. Awesome Canyons, Majestic Valleys, Carve You Do, Those Mountain Bellies. Crystal Clea menu_book

The country is at the threshold of a new era of either or both despair and hope. This is because Afghanistan has fast become a land of controversies. Everything that happens there is controversial. Think of its government, its president, its war, i menu_book

As if under a spell, wherever you look, whichever you focus on in Afghanistan is drowned in confusion. Confusion prevails in government, in its all three branches, in its relationship with regional powers even its allies. The politician is confused menu_book

posted by John Nichols Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, who began openly and aggressively angling for a war with Iraq just weeks after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and who has been the most ardent advocate menu_book

Stealing Money, Selling Heroin and Raping Boys -- The Very Dark Side of the Afghan Occupation One reason Afghan villagers prefer dealing with the Taliban than govt. security forces is that the latter have a habit of seizing their sons at check menu_book

Frustration with the terrible conditions in Afghanistan has led to a proposal announced by Ariana Afghanistan TV to constitute a caravan of peace. This article takes a look at the proposal and discusses whether it is viable or useful. The menu_book

September 18, 2005 is set for parliamentary elections in Afghanistan. Long awaited democratic process preparation conclusion is in sight. With the culmination of this last step in democratic exercise, Afghanistan will officially join a community of n menu_book

The Idea of Caliphate in Islam: Earlier in time around the seventh century, the Islamic world had taken the lead in sciences, philosophy, politics, government and propagation of institutions of education and learning in the world. Europe li menu_book

Afghanistan guarded the northwestern gates of the Indian subcontinent for more than two centuries of the British occupation of India. Yet when the British left and India attained its independence in 1947, Afghanistan was left with a defunct document menu_book

Many followed with interest the latest trip of the Afghan President Karzai to Washington, who had openly expressed anger over the report of torture of Afghan citizens at the hands of the US military at the US military base in Bagram, Afghanistan as w menu_book

When the Untied States was reportedly on a track leading to winning over the hearts and minds of the Muslims, the Newsweek report, still uncorroborated by other sources, shattered the notion. Yet it should serve as a wake-up call to the need for pu menu_book

Politicking is an amusing game. More recently President Karzai has started to learn and experiment some of its intricacies it in his country. Some observers are of the opinion that he is learning the game from his well-placed confidants at home and a menu_book

Perhaps one man, Zalmay Khalilzad, stands out in Afghanistan's recent history as a man who wielded real power and used it unabashedly to influence Afghan affairs in the field. Khalilzad was there when the haphazard Bonn meeting participated by a hand menu_book

Regional politics in south-central Asia make a complicated maze for any politician and especially for Afghanistan's newly emerging democracy's leaders. One of the biggest functions of Afghanistan's president who bears the banner of Afghan politics mo menu_book

With Karzai's position secured as the president and his cabinet selected, the nation looks forward to action. Karzai had promised action on the basis of recognized priorities. But the first priority he chose was a jihad against opium. The Afghan n menu_book

In matters of history, nations behave as individuals. Nations have collective memories. Nations have collective feelings and emotions. Nations have collective pride, collective aspirations and collective dignity. Nations prosper during peace and suff menu_book

Power seems to be addictive. Power also seems to drive the powerful crazy. Power has been shown to blind the powerful to see the reality, has turned them deaf to hearing the plight of their nations, has stunned their senses and sensibilities to feel menu_book

The Afghan nation welcomed the decision to democratize Afghanistan in the face of the harsh medieval rule of the Taleban very early in the threshold of the 21st Century. Events at that time augmented the hopes of the optimists that a full fledged dem menu_book

Afghan politics are getting more complicated by the day. Governance in Afghanistan is in a crisis. Afghan politicians are confused, afraid and perplexed for a variety of reasons, some selfish others otherwise. The new American administration is yet t menu_book

A Change of Emphasis in the US policy: (To end one war and win the other.) The Obama administration has from the outset expressed a serious interest in finding ways to end the war in Iraq and to win the war in Afghanistan. Recently the administra menu_book

Political games are continuously played in our dog-eat-dog world. It is as if the" sin-city" is the world and the casinos, the countries in it. Open 24/7, they give the players, the politicians, several chances to lose. Political players however are menu_book

Afghanistan located in South Central Asian region has acquired an interesting venue for demographic studies. Thirty years of wars and instability coupled with an ongoing war on terror by a coalition of around forty countries in Afghan menu_book

You were in my dreams, last night. I did not actually see you, but you were there. We were on top of this magnificent hill over looking a lush green vista. A narrow winding road led to the front of this mansion. Dark rose colored bricks and menu_book

Of all the earthly games, politics seems to be the most amusing. The eyes of the beholder see strange things. They would see day at night and night in the daytime. And yet, the world forgives the disparity. In the middle of April, the United State menu_book

Where is the manpower? No development is possible without people, professional and otherwise behind it. Afghanistan was short of qualified personnel even long before it fell into the abyss of chaos, war and destruction. A full quarter of a century of menu_book

Browsing through the internet late last week, I came across an article by Malcom Garcia of the Kansas City Star which said of Karzai, the president of all Afghanistan that "although it has been more than one year since a U. S.-led military coalitio menu_book