Pakistan’s ISI: Undermining Afghan self-determination since 1948

December 2, 2011

Recent news linking Pakistan’s Inter-services Intelligence (ISI) unit to Islamic militants really isn’t news at all, because these reports are simply derivatives of the same story that’s plagued Afghanistan since the spy agency was founded by British Major General William Cawthorne in 1948, when Pakistan also inherited Britain’s “forward policy” of using Afghanistan as a [...]

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Pakistan and ISI was hiding Osama bin Laden

May 3, 2011

I have been saying this for the last ten years that Pakistan is hiding Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan. But I must admit that I never thought that Pakistan would hide Osama inside Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. More precisely in Abbottabad close to a military base. Isn’t this a huge embarrassment to Pakistan and [...]

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Taliban prison escape a hidden agenda?

April 28, 2011

Is the hidden agenda for Taliban and their future role in the Afghan government the reason to why 488 inmates escaped? Afghan who says he joined prison escape gives details Source: Los Angeles Times By: Aimal Yaqoubi and Molly Hennessy-Fiske The account provides a picture of how at least 488 inmates made their dramatic escape [...]

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Why Should Taliban and Other Insurgents Refrain from Negotiation With the US & NATO?

March 15, 2011

With the war in Afghanistan becoming a decade old, the rhetoric of peace and negotiation has been widespread including President Obama’s desire to negotiate with “moderate elements” of Taliban. This mushrooming of desire for negotiations has several reasons. First, the war in Afghanistan has become the longest war fought in the US history, prompting the [...]

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Afghan ambassador in Kuwait and his peculation

March 14, 2011

Each year the government of Kuwait gives out several different scholarships directed to the higher education office in Afghanistan aimed for the different educational programs in Afghanistan. It appears that students presented to the universities in Kuwait are in many cases disqualified for these seats. Many of them whom haven’t even started their higher education [...]

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The Afghans will never forget!

March 10, 2011

In Kabul in 2001 I was sent with a unit to meet with an Afghan government minister. We had to explain that we weren’t Russian, we were British. As soon as we did he rounded on us and shouted: British? You burned down the covered market! My first thought was s***, what have the Paras done [...]

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Imitate the Israeli way when dealing with terrorists in Afghanistan

March 4, 2011

Afghans have had engouh of death from both sides. Taliban who are sent from their masters in Pakistan to spread kaos and death among civilians inside Afghanistan has reached a new level. Inside Afghanistan the ISAF forces are killing innocent children and bombing civilian villages claiming they are attacking Talibans. If the intention is to [...]

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Bacha Khan the nonviolent Pashtun movement

February 23, 2011

Found a nice article about Bacha Khan and his nonviolent movement. People like Bacha Khan are really needed these days when Pashtun both in Afghanistan and Pakistan are innocently killed. Followers of the nonviolent Pashtun movement known as Khudai Khidmatgar Movement (Servants of God) are marking 23 years since the death of their legendary leader, [...]

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Letter to President Obama – Discrimination against Pashtuns

December 23, 2010

From: Dr. Misdaq, Dr. Zirakyar, Dr. Miraki and Dr. Burhani This letter was sent to: U.S. President Barack Obama; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,; Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry and Ranking Member Richard Lugar; German Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel; British Foreign Minister, William Hague; Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID); Fulbright scholarships; Director [...]

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The Danger Of Marginalizing Afghanistan’s Pashtuns

December 23, 2010

Here is another article confirming what I’ve been seeing and writing on this blog regarding the marginalization of Afghans in Afghanistan by minority groups such as Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras. By Tanya Goudsouzian, Helena Malikyar “If you think you are leading and no one is following you, then you are only taking a walk,” cautions [...]

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