When President Obama explained his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan to support General Stanley McChrystal’s new counterinsurgency campaign, he left a key question unanswered: Will this be enough to achieve U.S. strategic ends in Af-Pak?
U.S. military counterinsurgency doctrine calls for a security force ratio of 20 to 25 counterinsurgents for every [...]
President Obama won’t unveil his plans for Afghanistan until next week, but military officials tell that he intends to escalate the war by sending up to 35,000 additional troops and it is likely that they may find themselve pitched against Pakistan Armed Forces operating along Pak-Afghan border and some new battle grounds are opened. US Press secretary [...]
Instead of refuting angrily the claims made by the US newspapers that the Afghan Shura of Taliban, which shifted from Kandhar to Quetta in 2001 as the US invaded Afghanistan, has now moved to the Karachi. A port city which is the economic lifeline of Pakistan and which is calm and at rest for the [...]
Once again the US divisive rhetoric of ‘Quetta shura’ is in spin which indicates that US is now all out to push her Afghanistan war inside Pakistan. Pak government has expressed its ‘surprise’ at the latest volatile interview of US Ambassador Anne W Patterson and said that there was clearly a “huge disconnect” between Washington [...]
As the US and NATO leadership struggle to find a way out of the Afghan quicksand, amid a growing concern caused by the mounting casualties and enhancing strength of Afghan resistance, the US rhetoric seems to be getting focused on the city of Quetta. According to US assessment, the city houses the top echelon of [...]
If it’s true that Obama has directed it’s commanders in the Afghanistan to talk with the Talibans, then it’s a welcoming thing. Dialogue with the Taliban is the key and only way for America to get out of this quagmire. They cannot defeat or wipe out the Taliban, because that is the national movement of [...]
Quetta Shura is the ultimate result of the growing threat perception the American led NATO/ISAF feel after their seven years of their occupation of Afghanistan. The more war in Afghanistan lingers on the higher is the threat perception of war on terrorism which American are ultimately going to loose in Afghanistan. The famous saying about [...]
I seriously feel pity for the US newspapers like Washington Post and the NewYork Times in specific and others in general. I don’t feel anything for the Fox media as it has been created on the fungus. The way every other week, the reporters of the Post and NY Times churn out stories of battlefield, [...]
One day is a long time in the world affairs. As the Biden’s proposal to withdraw troops currently engaged in counter-insurgency and nation-building, and instead focus on counter-terrorism there and in Pakistan rapidly materializing and soon we are going to see major shift in the Obama’s policy for this region, carrots are also on the [...]
It has been reported that Mullah Omar, the leader of a cave-dwelling Muslim sect, recently reminded his enemies of the warlike history of Afghanistan. His message: “We have always defeated outsiders!”
But what I fail to understand about these cave-dwellers is just one thing: How is there interpretation of Islam the right one if they have [...]
