[Quqnoos] An influential Afghan governor has accused the central government of destabilising security in his province by arming local commanders
Atta Mohammad Noor, governor of the northern Balkh province, addressing a large audience gathered to mark the death anniversary of Ahmad Shah Massoud on Wednesday, said Karzai's government distributes arms to local commanders in some districts of the province.
The Afghan Interior Ministry has termed the accusations 'totally baseless', adding the General Attorney Office and the National Security Council have been asked to probe the allegations.
Governor Noor, a strong ally of President Karzai's main challenger Abdullah Abdullah, lashed out at the Afghan ministries of defence and interior for preventing post-election protests in the province.
The ex-Foreign Minister, Abdullah previously warned to not accept the outcome of last month' election if the country's Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) fails to meet the fraud allegations.
The Afghan Independent Election Commission announced on Tuesday that Karzai has collected 2,959,093 votes and Abdullah earned 1,546,490 votes out of the 91.6 per cent of polling stations tallied over the past three weeks.
Balkh province is one of the strongholds of Abdullah, where he has bagged 46 per cent of the votes and Karzai has collected 38 from nearly 97 per cent of the polling stations that have been tallied so far.
Balkh governor added no signs of improvement have appeared in the life of the people, despite the infusion of massive foreign donations have made to Afghanistan over the past seven years.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) has scrapped ballots from dozens of polling stations because of "clear and convincing evidence of fraud".
The ECC ordered for the first time that ballots be invalidated from 83 polling stations in Paktika, Kandahar and Ghazni provinces.
"In the course of its investigations, the ECC has found clear and convincing evidence of fraud" in a number of polling stations in the southeastern provinces of Paktika and Ghazni," it said in a statement on its website.
The areas had largely backed President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan presidential election on 20 August.
Investigations in Ghazni found indications of fraud including miscounted ballots, including missing materials and fictitious card numbers.
Figures released after the latest vote count by Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Tuesday showed Karzai getting 54.1 percent of the vote.
Karzai moves into a clear lead in the country's protracted presidential contest, passing the key 50% threshold needed to avoid a run-off.
However, the vote has been marred by low turnout and widespread allegations of vote-rigging and Taliban intimidation.
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[Quqnoos] Incumbent Karzai defended last month's Afghan election a day after a partial vote count placed him in the lead with 54 per cent of votes
Preliminary election results issued on Tuesday gave Karzai more than 54 percent of valid votes tallied, putting him above the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff with his closest rival, Abdullah Abdullah.
But the independent Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) said it had found "clear and convincing" evidence of fraud and ordered a partial recount.
"The president praised the election officials for holding the election with honesty and impartiality despite all the difficulties," according to a presidential palace statement.
Abdullah says Karzai's backers have attempted to steal the August 20 election by stuffing ballots on a massive scale.
The ex-Foreign Minister, Abdullah has warned to not accept the outcome if the country's Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) fails to meet the fraud allegations.
The Afghan Independent Election Commission announced on Tuesday that Karzai has collected 2,959,093 votes and Abdullah earned 1,546,490 votes out of the 91.6 per cent of polling stations tallied over the past three weeks.
Other candidates trailing the two key challengers are Ramazan Bashardost with 505,347 votes and Dr Ashraf Ghani with 147,761.
The final certified outcome is expected to be announced next week.
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The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) says investigators are studying evidence of alleged crimes against humanity in Afghanistan
Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the court was gathering information about possible crimes against humanity in Afghanistan.
Media reports said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- which includes US and other western troops -- could potentially become the target of an ICC prosecution.
The court had received allegations from many sources, relating to attacks and collateral damage, according to the prosecutor.
US soldiers acting on behalf of NATO are accused of alleged torture of prisoners and use of excessive force against civilians.
Ocampo's remarks come after 125 people, many of them civilians, were killed and scores of others injured on Friday.
NATO warplanes targeted stolen fuel tankers on orders of a German commander in the northern Kunduz province.
The NATO command said the air raid had targeted two fuel tankers allegedly hijacked by Taliban-linked militants. The incident drew international condemnation and world leaders called for a probe into the air strike.
Pressure is mounting on the US and its western allies to pull out troops from the country amid growing civilians and troops' causalities.
More than 140 Afghan civilians were killed in a series of US airstrikes in the western Farah province in early May.
Civilians have been the main victims of violence in Afghanistan, particularly in the troubled southern and eastern provinces.
More than 1,000 civilians have lost their lives either in US-led air strikes or in the Taliban-led insurgency across the violence-wracked country in the first half of the current year, according to a UN report.
The UN also noticed that the number of civilians killed in the Afghanistan conflict has jumped 24 percent so far this year.
The ICC, the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, began operating in 2002. Afghanistan is one of the 110 countries that have ratified the treaty creating it.
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Number of AQ and Taliban identified for possible prosecution? Betcha - token to none. That's in face of the systematic and intentional violations of existing conventions on the conduct of war by said groups. It's politics.
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provide NO security for these tools. Let their location be widely known.
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oh, and no rescue missions or ransom paid
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We know where the International criminal court is located. It is indeed a crime - against the concept of individual liberty, of the rule of nations, and the concept that people are only subject to the rules their nation initiates. I think it would be a very good idea for the ICC to receive delivery of a Tomahawk missile during court hours. Have it enter through the front door, to do the maximum amount of damage. I have NOT given MY consent to be governed by a bunch of "international" idiots.
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U.S. envoy Stephen Bosworth is believed to be interested in holding a one-on-one meeting with North Korea in hopes of reviving the six-way talks over nuclear tensions on the peninsula.
Just apologize to them, Mr. Bosworth. Tell them Bambi says he's sorry too. Offer them a lot of aid. Send them lots of food. Back down on the nuclear weapons. Promise to withdraw from South Korea. Heck, promise to withdraw from Guam. You'll get your meeting. You won't have anything to talk about but you'll get your meeting.
This is according to a Seoul official, citing comments by Bosworth in Tokyo earlier this week in which he claimed Washington is willing to engage the Stalinist state on a bilateral basis and will be seeking appropriate ways to respond to a North Korean invitation for direct talks over the next few weeks.
The Obama administration has on several occasions reiterated intentions to address Pyongyang only within the six-party framework.
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[Kyodo: Korea] Japan"s top government spokesman said Thursday that North Korea showed another sign of a conciliatory approach by indicating its eagerness to improve ties with Japan under the new administration to be led by the Democratic Party of Japan. ""This is part of North Korea"s conciliatory policy,"" Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura said after North Korea"s No. 2 leader Kim Yong Nam called for ""fruitful relations"" with Japan"s incoming administration during an interview in Pyongyang with Kyodo News earlier in the day.
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My family had a couple of big Tabbies.
Back to NORTH KOREA > REDDIT - STARVING IN SILENCE [8.0-plus Milyuhn]. Have or are eatin' all their livestock, no farm machinery, 3/4 of all NOKOR households had to seriously alter their food schedules + consumption, CITY STREETS ARE QUIET = MOSTLY EMPTY, KIDDIES HAVE DIARRHEA = GASTRIC PROBS [ e.g. grass-eatin'],ETC. - NOKOR'S ARMY IS STILL WELL-ARMED AND VERY DANGEROUS THOUGH.
[Al Arabiya Latest] The percentage of Americans who believe Islam encourages violence has declined in recent years but remains far above where it was in 2002, while very basic knowledge about the faith has shown modest increases, according to a new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
The poll's findings, released ahead of the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, come against the backdrop of President Barack Obama's attempts to reach out to the Islamic world and eroding public support for the war in Muslim Afghanistan as U.S. combat deaths there rise to record levels.
Most Americans also believe Muslims are discriminated against, a finding that suggests empathy for a community whose leaders often say they are regarded with suspicion and hostility.
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More Americns Braibwashed by MSM.
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Al Arabiya's interpretation of a media poll? Color me skeptical. In spite of the media, people are losing their innocence. Even my dear ol' Mum has moved away from the nicey-nice Methodist view that 'Islam is a religion of peace'.
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Just a Note on Polls - Last night I received a call from a pollster - I agreed to participate - the pollster asked questions which leaned towards the Democratic party - Is Obama doing a good job ? Is Timothy Kaine doing a good job as Chairman of the Democratic Party ? What do you like about the Health Care Reform debate ? - (1.No 2.No 3.Nothing - I like my Health insurance the way it is) Is the Congress doing a good job ? No, I think the Congress is being lead by a group of unrealistic, out of touch -click- Democrats that .....buzzzz - the line went dead.
I wonder were my responses to their questions not to their liking ?
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I wonder what proportion of American Muslims are currently FBI informants.
I wonder to what extent the failure of the Salafi-Jihadis to pull off anything in the US in the last 8 years, while they managed several attacks or near attacks in the UK, was due to the difference in the level of assimilation of our respective muslim communities.
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Slate makes an interesting point today.
Of the foreign born muslim community in the US, about 1/4 are Shiite, in striking contrast to west europe where they are almost all Sunni. Those Shiites want nothing to do with AQ. ANd to the extent they are post-1979 refugees from Iran, they mainly want nothing to do with violent Islamism.
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The number of Muslims in America is a somewhat questionable number as older ways of computing, that is the census, didn't ask questions on religion, just ethnicity. So Arabs were counted as Muslims and the US has a large number of Christian Arabs who fled the Muslim world.
So add to that 1/4 Shiite that the some of the remaining ones may not even be Muslims at all.
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Maybe if the MSM had the stones to publish pictures of people jumping from the Twin Towers, the number of Americans who see Islam as violent would go up.
I do not have Islamophobia. A phobia is an irrational fear or dread. I fear and dread Islam for very rational reasons.
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To be fair, the Bible has its share of violent 'mandates', too.
Most followers of the Bible no longer believe in their implementation as these ;rules' most likely had their origins in pre-biblical paganistic nomadic religions.
Many of our 'moon cult' brethren haven't moved past that fact, however.
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[ADN Kronos] By Syed Saleem Shahzad - On the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Washington and London have signalled a shift in strategy in the South Asian war theatre stressing the need to talk to moderate Taliban leaders. They have also announced a major boost in military hardware to eliminate extremists, particularly in the Pakistani tribal areas, the strategic backyard of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Now Al-Qaeda has revealed a new strategy in Pakistan's tribal areas to confront the new western plans.
After the demise of former Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, killed in an alleged US drone attack in August, veteran Mufti Waliur Rahman Mehsud was brushed aside and cowboy styled Hakimullah Mehsud was installed as leader of the umbrella Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.
The TTP, considered an Al-Qaeda franchise in South Asia, is conducting a new offensive in Pakistan to pre-empt the latest action by western powers in the region.
The TTP, considered an Al-Qaeda franchise in South Asia, is conducting a new offensive in Pakistan to pre-empt the latest action by western powers in the region.
A month has passed since 5 August, the most fateful day in the US-led anti-terror campaign when a drone missile attack eliminated Baitullah Mehsud. Finally the hot blooded, young warlord Hakimullah Mehsud was installed as the figurehead of the Pakistani Taliban and Mufti Waliur Rahman was appointed as the commander of the Taliban in Mehsud's stronghold of South Waziristan bordering Afghanistan.
Emissaries of the Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's in the tribal areas initially put their support behind Mufti Waliur Rahman, a more sensible and senior candidate, as chief of the Pakistani Taliban but other forces in the tribal areas namely Al-Qaeda were very uncomfortable with that choice. The reason was clear. Mufti Waliur Rahman's affinity with radical Arab camps in the region and with their ideology was ambiguous.
Mufti Waliur Rahman was previously a religious scholar and linked to a faculty in a local Islamic school. He was also a member of the Islamist political party, Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) led by Fazlur Rahman. The JUI is part of the incumbent coalition government in Islamabad. Mufti was still in contact with several top JUI leaders including Maulana Fazlur Rahman.
Since Baitullah Mehsud's death the biggest threat for Al-Qaeda were the 'gimmicks' proposed by the Pakistani army, including monetary compensation and bargaining for limited peace deals to buy time so their intelligence networks could infiltrate the tribal areas and coordinate drone attacks against Al-Qaeda members. Mufti Waliur Rahman was an unacceptable face for Al-Qaeda as militants considered him unreliable and there were fears that if he was appointed chief of the Taliban he might agree to a ceasefire deal with Pakistani security forces, if his former political allies from JUI approach him as guarantors.
There was also a risk that Mufti Waliur Rahman would also abandon TTP's ties with Pakistani terror networks like the Islamist Laskhar-e-Jhangvi and restrict the Taliban's role to the tribal area, supporting the insurgency in Afghanistan rather than taking up the arms against the Pakistan army.
At a time when the Pakistani tribal areas are a vital link on the strategic front for both the insurgents as well as NATO forces, Al-Qaeda wanted a local partner who would completely support its plans and resources and carry the war to its conclusion. So for Al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban the developments which arose after September 11 in Afghanistan would take a decisive turn in 2009. NATO forces in Afghanistan have come under siege as the conflict with militants expanded in northern Afghanistan and forced Washington and London to seek peace talks with the Taliban, without Al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists.
Recently the Afghan insurgency received a boost when insurgents operating out of Afghanistan's Baghlan district on the highway from Tajikistan launched coordinated attacks threatening to disrupt NATO's new supply route from Central Asia. NATO's supply lines from Pakistan to southern Afghanistan have already come under attack and late last year seriously squeezed NATO resources inside Afghanistan. A substitute route was finalised through the central Asian republics but that is now under attack.
The Taliban have also intensified its attacks against NATO and the number of foreign troop casualties has risen to an all-time high this year. In this phase of the Afghan conflict which Al-Qaeda considers decisive, its leaders regard any pause in the violence through a ceasefire or potential peace talks as a trap and its top ideologues understand that welcoming such moves as a clear retreat before a near victory.
Shiekh Saeed Al-Misri, emissary of Al-Qaeda's second-in- command, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, put Al-Qaeda's weight behind 29 year-old Hakimullah Mehsud, who finally won the backing of all stakeholders as the Pakistani Taliban's new chief. He is the new generation of the Taliban which completely reared under Al-Qaeda's influence and has never communicated with the Pakistani establishment. This is a significant development which makes peace and reconciliation in Pakistan a far more remote possibility.
Earlier, 2500 Uzbek fighters loyal to Qari Tahir Yaldeshiv of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who were living in exile in the Pakistani tribal areas became the backbone of slain Baitullah Mehsud, who became the biggest Taliban commander in the region with Al-Qaeda support. Al-Qaeda foresees an identical role for Hakimullah Mehsud through similar support.
It is very much apparent that unlike slain Baitullah Mehsud's vertical command structure, the command structure of TTP under Hakimullah Mehsud will be more fragmented. Hakimullah Mehsud will only coordinate activities between pro-Taliban warlords in Pakistani tribal areas like Mullah Fazlullah in Malakand, Maulvi Faqir in Bajaur, Waliur Rahman in South Waziristan, and his own group operating in Derra Adam Khel, Kurram agency, Khyber agency and Orakzai agency.
Unlike Baitullah Mehsud, Hakimullah's control will be limited to these commanders but Al-Qaeda envisions Hakimullah's role extending beyond the tribal areas. It aims to establish a nexus with Hakimullah, like the one they had with slain Baitullah Mehsud, through which they would carry out a few big operations in the region of Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and possibly outside the region which gives a new twist to the war on terror.
Immediately after Hakimullah Mehsud was installed as the chief of Pakistani Taliban, Zawahiri released a powerful video message. "The war in the tribal areas and Swat is an inseparable part of the Crusaders' assault on Muslims the length and breadth of the Islamic world," he said. "The Pakistan army is acting as a fundamental element of the Crusade against Islam and Muslims, and has become a tool in the hands of the global Crusade." Al-Zawahiri said that there was only one means available "to get out of this predicament which Pakistan had found itself: it is through Jihad, and there is no way other than Jihad."
This clearly signals that the new nexus between Al-Qaeda and Hakimullah Mehsud will have a special focus on Pakistani cities and involve launching joint high-profile terror operations aimed to outmaneouvre the new regional plans devised by the United States and the United Kingdom.
Hakimullah Mehsud fired his first shot on last Wednesday when two gunmen, associated with the Taliban, ambushed the motorcade of Pakistan's minister for the religious affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi. Hamid, a fiercely anti-Taliban cleric, was injured but his driver was killed in the attack. More attacks are being planned and are aimed at keeping Pakistan on the defensive.
Al-Qaeda has previously carried out identical plots to counter the western coalition in the region. The murder of former Pakistani prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, in December 2007 was one example through which Al-Qaeda created chaos and put Pakistan on defensive against the Taliban despite US pressure.
The Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008 was another example of Al-Qaeda's plot to undermine the western coalition. It caused so much hostility between India and Pakistan that international attention was diverted from Afghanistan and despite mediation by Washington, relations between Pakistan and India remained tense for months. The Madrid train bombings of 2004 and the London bombings of 2005 were two other examples in which Al-Qaeda sought to exert its power.
Pakistan is likely to be the new focus of American and British attempts to quell the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan. Both allies agree on an early exit strategy from Afghanistan and aim to train the Afghan army and police, as fast as possible, to take over the burden of battling the insurgents and in the meantime, western coalition forces aim to strike as many deals as possible with the moderate Taliban.
There is speculation that there will be an exodus of top Taliban commanders from Afghanistan who will head to the Pakistani tribal areas to regroup and there is immense pressure from Washington on the Pakistani army to start ground operations in South Waziristan to deprive Al-Qaeda and the Taliban of consolidating its base. However, before that happens, Al-Qaeda's endorsement of Hakimullah Mehsud puts him at the top of the hierarchy to carry out the next phase of the organisation's plans in South Asia.
This article starring:
BAITULLAH MEHSUD
TTP
FAZLUR RAHMAN
Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam
HAKIMULLAH MEHSUD
TTP
Hamid Saeed Kazmi
MAULVI FAQIR
TTP
MUFTI WALIUR RAHMAN MEHSUD
TTP
MULLAH FAZLULLAH
TTP
QARI TAHIR YALDESHIV
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
SHIEKH SAID AL MASRI
al-Qaeda
WALIUR RAHMAN
TTP
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > THE TALIBAN DON'T WANT TO BE CALLED THE TALIBAN.
D *** NG IT, it hurts their feelings, + they prefer "ISLAMIC EMIRATE OF AFGHANISTAN" [FUTURE NUKULAAR, of course].
[Geo News] The crackdown on Laskhra-e-Islam is still in full swing on the 10th day of crackdown against the extremists in Khyber Agency in Tehsil Bara; also, the exodus of local people from the area is in progress on Thursday. Political Administration announced to continue the crackdown until the area is cleared. Talking to Geo News, PA Khyber Agency Tariq Hayat said 107 extremists have been killed in the action on the 10th day of the crackdown; also, 127 houses and 26 centers of the extremists have been razed down. Also, 107 people have been arrested in the action. PA Khyber said the action is afoot in Bara Tehsil areas of Malak Deenkhel, Akakhel, Sapah, Shalobar and Qambarkhel and these areas are being searched. He added Bara Market has been cleared; however, it will take time to clear the entire area.
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[Dawn] Ahead of his meeting with Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said that Pakistan has a vested interest in blocking the inquiry into the Mumbai attacks and is safeguarding terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
'It's an orchestrated voice emanating from Pakistan. They have a vested interest in safeguarding Hafiz Saeed. We have no doubt that Saeed is the brain behind the Mumbai attacks and have evidence to prove it,' Krishna told TV news channel Headlines Today in an interview.
Krishna also underlined that terrorism would remain his focus when he meets Qureshi at the UN General Assembly in New York later this month.
'We are continuously engaging Pakistan on terrorism although we may not be talking to each other on other issues,' he said.
'We have got to have lots of patience when dealing with troublesome neighbours like Pakistan. India is too big, too strong to get frustrated,' Krishna replied when asked whether India's patience was running out in the face of Pakistan's reluctance to act against the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage.
Krishna's remarks underline New Delhi's unhappiness with Pakistan's lack of adequate action against anti-India terrorists and its perceived vacillation in prosecuting the perpetrators and masterminds of the Mumbai attacks, especially Saeed. The terror attacks left over 170 people, including many foreigners, dead.
Krishna last month said that action against persons like Saeed will convince New Delhi of Islamabad's seriousness in tackling cross-border terror.
New Delhi has made it clear many a time that it has given enough evidence to convict Saeed, the founder of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba that later turned into Jamaat ud-Dawa, in a court of law.
Last month, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao had handed over to Pakistani High Commissioner Shahid Malik the sixth dossier on the November 2008 terror attacks that specifically included 'additional information' on Saeed.
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ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > AQ KHAN: PAKISTAN BOUGHT 200 MISSLES FROM NORTH KOREA [back in 1999], + ELECTIONS IN JAPAN COULD HAVE SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS FOR PAKISTAN [+ also South Asia]. Espec indir as vee CHINA + JAPANESE MIL-NUKE REARMAMENT.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > WARMONGERS IN INDIA, CHINA MISS THE MARK [two regional rivals are actually dev better closer Diplomatic, Economic cooperation-relations]???
[Geo News] President Asif Ali Zardari has rejected US President Obama""s strategy of linking policy on Pakistan and Afghanistan in an effort to end the Taliban insurgency Thursday. In an interview to a foreign newspaper, Zardari said that Pakistan and Afghanistan are two different countries that could not be jointly treated through such policies. He said that Pakistan has very little time to cope with threats facing to the very existence of the country. He said that the war against terrorism would be harmed if Pakistan were not provided foreign assistance soon. ""If financial assistance to Pakistan was not dispatched on time then it would compel to do some cutting in development expenditure to fill the losses of terror war,"" said President Zardari. The Obama administration unveiled in late March a new strategy on fighting militant groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan, considering the Afghan-Pakistani cooperation crucial to the success of its new policy for the region.
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Its only a co-incidence that the most violent areas in Afghan boder Pakistan and the Taliban daily infiltrate from their bases in Pakistan!
The plot thickened on Thursday over a secret trip by Israel's prime minister, as his office admitted it had misled about his whereabouts but stopped short of denying reports he had stolen away to Russia.
Meanwhile Iran insisted Thursday there would be no suspension of its uranium enrichment program following a proposal to world powers Wednesday aimed at resolving the atomic program standoff.
But the statement did not deny media reports that Netanyahu had flown to Russia aboard a private plane on Monday to discuss Moscow's arms sales to arch-foes Syria and Iran.
In Moscow, the Russian authorities said that the Israeli premier had met neither his counterpart Vladimir Putin nor President Dmitry Medvedev, but did not explicitly deny the trip itself.
The mystery around the prime minister's day-long disappearance from public view is unfolding alongside another -- that the Arctic Sea cargo ship supposedly seized by pirates and later recovered by Russia was secretly carrying S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems bound for Iran.
Russia has denied that the ship was carrying S-300s and Russian investigators have announced that their inspection of the vessel turned up only its official cargo of timber.
Israel has for years tried to convince Russia not to sell S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Iran, which the Jewish state fears Tehran could deploy around its controversial nuclear sites.
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ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > EXPERT: CHINA COULD ATTACK INDIA BY 2012; + US: IRAN COULD EXPEDITE PRODUCTION OF NUCLEAR BOMB [near "possible breakout capacity"], iff it so desires.
Lest we fergit, ZAWAHIRI: US IS DEFEATED/HAS LOST IN AFGHANISTAN.
Wehell, all Radical Islam needs is the HIDDEN IMAM-MAHDI to appear, IRAN BOMB 2010-2012, + a FRENCH GENERAL in charge of defending Amerika.
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I think the point may have been that it was never pirates, nor missiles stolen by rogue Russian officers, either. But rather, a quiet sale from the Russian government to the Iranian one, and what was intended to be a quiet shipment... The Israelis were being extraordinarily tactful by suggesting otherwise.
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This sort of thing unfortunately becomes necessary with with the current state of US-Israeli relations. No serious Israeli would bet his country's survival on the words of Obama / Clinton.
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[Geo News] President Asif Ali Zardari has rejected US President Obama""s strategy of linking policy on Pakistan and Afghanistan in an effort to end the Taliban insurgency Thursday. In an interview to a foreign newspaper, Zardari said that Pakistan and Afghanistan are two different countries that could not be jointly treated through such policies. He said that Pakistan has very little time to cope with threats facing to the very existence of the country. He said that the war against terrorism would be harmed if Pakistan were not provided foreign assistance soon. ""If financial assistance to Pakistan was not dispatched on time then it would compel to do some cutting in development expenditure to fill the losses of terror war,"" said President Zardari. The Obama administration unveiled in late March a new strategy on fighting militant groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan, considering the Afghan-Pakistani cooperation crucial to the success of its new policy for the region.
