The US efforts in facilitating Taliban talks with the Kabul regime have had a wide coverage in the United States electronic and print media. However the influential media apparently failed to ponder on the single most important missing link for such talks to be dubbed as successful. Such was the extent of the excitement created [...]
The recently concluded NATO summit in Lisbon unanimously agreed to end the mission in Afghanistan by 2014 for which the withdrawal, as declared by President Obama, would commence from mid-July 2011. The complete withdrawal however would be situation based. The Summit was one of the most important in the Organization’s 61-year old history as it [...]
The U.S. engagement in Afghanistan has consumed billions of dollars in sustaining external logistics supply routes for its war effort in Afghanistan. The challenges in securing the external transit routes nevertheless are potentially going to outweigh the costs that U.S. pays to secure internal transits routes within Afghanistan vis-à-vis its aim to stabilize that country. [...]
Was Obama India visit a success for America? By all counts, it was! Obama set out for US $200 a day visit with a large 200-member entourage that comprised solely the businessmen and entrepreneurs. Besides clinching a US $12 billion deals for commercial and cargo planes, the US vouched to court India at all forums [...]
The decision of Pakistan post independence to tilt towards the United States and the West was mandated by the huge financial assistance that the nascent state of Pakistan needed at that time to resurrect. The other two developments that forced the tilt was Russian and Afghan support to India when it flew its military forces [...]
After ten days of blocking the key NATO supply line into Afghanistan at Torkham, the government of Pakistan re-opened its borders crossing only after the US administration had formally apologized for killing three soldiers of its front line ally against war on terror. The gory and ugly incident that killed the targeted Pakistani soldiers will [...]
The ‘Operation Dragon Strike’ underway in Afghanistan’s southern province Kandahar is taking its toll not only in terms of loss of precious Afghan lives, mostly civilians, but also on the mental state of American soldiers over their prolonged agony in Afghanistan. With no official counts released for the operation in Kandahar by Pentagon, US military [...]
General Patraeus, the supreme US Commander in Afghanistan and famed savoir of United States who helped orchestrated US withdrawal from Iraq after creating dents in the opposition’s unity fighting the Americans. Surprisingly, there has been no or very little acclamation of victory declared therein Iraq by Obama. As per the latest Wikileaks disclosure, 109,000 Iraqis [...]
For all purposes the talks between the Kabul government and the chosen factions of Taliban are moving ahead albeit, rather slowly than required. The reason for their slow progress is that the Kabul government is forced to negotiate with only those factions or groups of Taliban that are recommended by American interlocutors and the military [...]
The Afghan parliamentary elections were held on 18th September 2010 with preliminary and final results to be made public on 8th and 30th October respectively. “The event was marred by expected violence with 33 bomb explosions, 63 rocket attacks and 93 attacks on polling stations that killed at least 21 voters and wounded another 46 [...]
