U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker said Saturday it was unlikely that this week’s deadly attacks on Shi’ites in Afghanistan would spark a cycle of sectarian violence in the country. The veteran diplomat said that, based on the reaction of the Shi’ite leaders who have called for calm, he did not see the attacks turning [...]
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December 11, 2011
December 9, 2011
Sectarian Terror Attack Fuels Afghan-Pakistan Tension
This week’s suicide bomb attack that killed dozens of Shi’ite Muslims at a Kabul shrine has significantly heightened tensions between Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan. The Afghan president has vowed to confront Pakistan’s government over the issue. Islamabad, for its part, is seeking to soothe riled emotions. Kabul kept the pressure on Pakistan Thursday, following an [...]
December 8, 2011
Afghan President Vows to ‘Confront Pakistan’ Over Holy Day Terror Attack
A day after a suicide bomb tore through central Kabul and , Afghan President Hamid Karzai is blaming a Pakistan-based group for the attack. Another explosion Wednesday killed at least 19 more Afghan civilians. Wednesday’s bombing took place in the southern Afghan province of Helmand – a known Taliban stronghold – raising the two-day [...]
December 6, 2011
Bonn Conference Focuses on Afghan Transformation
One decade ago, diplomats gathered in Bonn, Germany, to appoint a transitional government in Afghanistan. Now, with international combat forces set to leave in 2014, more than 100 delegations have come to Bonn for a conference on the future of Afghanistan. The focus of the Bonn conference is to shift away from an Afghanistan in [...]
December 5, 2011
Nato must rectify the errors it has made in Afghanistan | Jonathan Steele
Monday’s great Afghanistan jamboree in Bonn has been overshadowed by the latest row between Washington and Pakistan. After the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers by Nato air strikes, the government in Islamabad refused to let its foreign minister attend. The real problem, however, is the conference’s agenda: it will not discuss how to end foreign [...]
November 30, 2011
Pakistan Dismisses Calls to Attend Afghan Conference
Pakistan is dismissing international calls to reconsider its boycott of next week’s international conference on Afghanistan. The government decided not to attend the December 5 summit in Bonn in protest of Saturday’s deadly NATO air assault that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at military posts near the Afghan border. REUTERS Protesters yell anti-American slogans while burning [...]
November 30, 2011
Afghan President Urges Pakistan to Attend Bonn Conference
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is urging Pakistan to change its mind about boycotting the upcoming international conference on his country’s future. Reuters Karzai called Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, requesting the Pakistani government attend Monday’s conference in Bonn, Germany. The Afghan leader also extended his condolences for the losses Pakistan suffered in the NATO [...]
November 20, 2011
Afghan Jirga Backs US Deal
Delegates at a traditional national assembly in Afghanistan have endorsed a long-term strategic partnership with the United States that would address Afghanistan’s security needs and the presence of U.S. forces in the country after 2014. The non-binding resolution issued at the end of a four-day Loya Jirga assembly Saturday also suggested conditions for future talks [...]
November 18, 2011
End night raids, house searches before Afghan deal: Karzai
November 17, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis End night raids, house searches before Afghan deal: Karzai 16 Nov 2011 Afghanistan wants the United States and NATO to agree to stop carrying out night raids on Afghan homes as a precondition to signing a partnership deal with Washington, President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday. The Afghan leader [...]
November 16, 2011
Karzai: no US military pact until night raids cease
Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai told a national gathering of Afghan elders that he will not sign a much-delayed military pact with the US until night raids by foreign forces come to an end. In a fiery speech to an assembly of more than 2,000 delegates Karzai said continued US military and economic help beyond the [...]
November 16, 2011
Karzai Outlines Conditions for US Troops Remaining in Afghanistan
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his country wants its sovereignty and an end to night raids as conditions for a strategic partnership with the United States under which some U.S. troops would remain in Afghanistan. Karzai said Wednesday he does not want parallel institutions set up alongside his government. He spoke at the opening of [...]
November 5, 2011
US general in Afghanistan fired
5 November 2011 Last updated at 02:20 GMT US troops are helping train Afghan forces ahead of a 2014 troop withdrawal deadline A senior US commander has been dismissed after he made disparaging comments about Afghanistan’s leaders. Maj Gen Peter Fuller, deputy commander of Nato’s Afghan training mission, said in an interview with Politico the [...]
October 23, 2011
Afghanistan to back Pakistan if wars with U.S.: Karzai
October 22, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Afghanistan to back Pakistan if wars with U.S.: Karzai 22 Oct 2011 Afghanistan would support Pakistan in case of military conflict between Pakistan and the United States, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview to a private Pakistani TV channel broadcast on Saturday. “God forbid, If ever there [...]
September 30, 2011
Afghanistan Sours on Pakistan and Taliban Talks
As a result, the leaders said, they planned to work closely with the United States, Europe and India to plan the country’s future. The shift in Afghanistan’s policies emerged in a statement released by the presidential palace on Thursday after a meeting the night before of senior government officials, including the two vice presidents, the [...]