AfPak: Mutiny on the Bounty By Eric Walberg – CairoKabul was cast into chaos Sunday as the Taliban began their spring offensive with attacks on US, British, German and Russian embassies, NATO headquarters, Camp Eggers, a hotel, President Karzai’s palace compound and parliament. “These are coordinated attacks that went just [...]
Afghan police were left to pick up the pieces after a devastating series of Taliban attacks across the country [AFP] Doha, Qatar - In one of the first official US reactions to the attacks against Kabul and cities across eastern Afghanistan last weekend, Ryan C Crocker, US ambassador to Afghanistan, said: “The Taliban are really good [...]
Clinton told Afghan civic leaders that the US would not abandon the country [AFP] US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has encouraged Afghanistan’s wary leadership and civic leaders to keep up Taliban reconciliation efforts and boost counterterrorism co-operation with Pakistan, as the Obama administration presses ahead with troop withdrawal plans. On an unannounced visit to Kabul, Clinton told civic [...]
US Knows Pressure on Pakistan Won’t Change Policy by Gareth Porter, September 28, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The U.S. threat last week that “all options” are on the table if the Pakistani military doesn’t cut its ties with the Haqqani network of anti-U.S. insurgents created the appearance of a crisis involving potential U.S. [...]
Ties between Pakistan and the US have worsened since ISI was accused of supporting armed group [Reuters] Pakistan’s prime minister has warned the United States that continued accusations of playing a double game in the “war on militancy” only risked fanning anti-Americanism in his country. Yusuf Raza Gilani, speaking in an interview with Reuters news agency on [...]
Pakistan Scrambles for New Allies as Split With US Seems Likely Army Commanders Dismiss US Allegations of Terrorism by Jason Ditz, September 26, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Following a a multi-hour meeting on Sunday, Pakistan’s military commanders publicly rejected the multiple US allegations of attacking the US Embassy in Kabul, and agreed to [...]
Are We At War With Pakistan? Seems like it… by Justin Raimondo, September 26, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In the days before the Empire, generals – particularly Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs – kept their mouths shut. The Founders’ justified fears of military intrusion into the political realm were still present in the American [...]
Quintessentially Authoritarian Foreign Policy John Glaser, September 26, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Reuters: Pakistan’s military will not take action against the Haqqani militant group that Washington blames for an attack against its embassy in Kabul, despite mounting American pressure to do so, a Pakistani newspaper reported on Monday. …The Pakistani commanders [...]
All options open if attacked: Hina ISLAMABAD: Foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Saturday warned the United States against sending ground troops to her country to fight Haqqani network. Khar said in an interview Saturday that there are red lines and rules of engagement with America, which should not be broken. “It opens all [...]
Pakistan‘s generals meet as relations with US hit new low Protesters burn a mock US flag during a protest in Hyderabad, Pakistan. Photograph: Nadeem Khawer/EPA Pakistani military join scramble to tackle crisis as tensions with US escalate, raising likelihood of more drone strikes reddit this Declan Walsh in Islamabad guardian.co.uk, Sunday 25 September 2011 [...]
A bad romance: Pakistan and US Photo by EPA By Imran Khan in Asia on Sun, 2011-09-25 15:22. Like all great lovers’ tiffs, this one started with frustration. Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, decided to make his feelings public. In a nutshell, he accused Pakistan of state sponsored terrorism, [...]
US Drones Kill 10 in Southern Yemen Another 16 Killed in Sanaa as Ceasefire Crumbles by Jason Ditz, September 21, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum US drones were once again active in the southern Abyan Province today, killing at least 10 people in a pair of strikes in al-Mahfad and a pair of strikes [...]
Pakistan Officials: US Should Stop Blaming Us for Afghan Violence Urges US to Focus on Militants Operating Inside Afghanistan by Jason Ditz, September 19, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Pakistani military officials today blasted the US over its focus on the Haqqani Network and accusations of Pakistani government ties to them, saying that it [...]
LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. More Than 160 Children Killed in America’s Drone War in Pakistan One in seven of all US strikes appear to have resulted in child fatalities. August 14, 2011 | This story first appeared on the Bureau [...]
The Obama administration decided that it was not concerned about drone strikes upsetting Pakistanis EPA] Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets US drone strikes hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here. The sources, who met on condition that they not be identified, said that such veto [...]
Afghanistan War Weekly: July 25, 2011 By davidswanson - Posted on 25 July 2011 This week, there were several reports of corruption and mismanagement of government funds, including the discovery that the Taliban was indirectly receiving US funds intended for transportation contracts. There were also conflicting reports regarding the death of Mullah Omar, who the Taliban also said [...]
US defence secretary Leon Panetta has said he believes Osama bin Laden‘s successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is hiding in Pakistan‘s tribal area. Photograph: Pool/Reuters The Pakistan military declared it did not need US military aid as the White House confirmed that it would withhold some $800m (£498m) in assistance to the country’s armed forces. The row will worsen [...]
The attack on the Kabul hotel, which NATO says involved the Haqqani network, left at least 12 civilians dead [Reuters] NATO forces in Afghanistan say they have killed a senior member of the Haqqani network involved in an attack on Kabul’s Inter-continental Hotel on Tuesday night. Ismail Jan, the deputy commander of the Haqqani fighters in Afghanistan, was killed in “precision airstrike in [...]
ill The U.S. Military Concede East Afghanistan to The Taliban? Posted: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:36:18 +0000 John Allen better be a mathematical genius. The three-star Marine general tapped to helm the Afghanistan war has one hell of a battlefield geometry problem on his hands. Not only does Allen have to hold U.S. gains in southern [...]
Home About Antiwar.com Donate Blog US Casualties Contact Latest News Letters At Least 24 Killed as US Drones Attack North Waziristan Killings Bring Three-Day Toll to 45 by Jason Ditz, June 08, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum US drones once again pounded the North Waziristan Agency of Pakistan today, destroying a [...]
Making peace with the Taliban? UN pressed to lift Afghan sanctions Britain and US accept insurgents’ demand to end sanctions on ex-Taliban leaders including notorious Mohammed Qalamuddin Share10 Jason Burke in Kabul guardian.co.uk, Thursday 2 June 2011 20.24 BST Article history Haqqani Taliban fighters in Khost, east Afghanistan. Their representaives visited Kabul for talks. [...]
The View From Afghanistan http://warisacrime.org/content/view-afghanistan Editor’s Note: Asking Afghans what they think of U.S. Taliban “peace talks” produces answers one doesn’t encounter in the United States. Here’s a response to that question from Hakim, a.k.a. Teck Young Wee, of Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers.-DCNS By Hakim BAMYAN PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN — The Obama administration (and NATO) [...]
