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2020-04-23 Afghanistan
Indian Army to deploy a team to Afghanistan to help with coronavirus fight
[KhaamaPress] The Indian Army is readying a team which is expected to be deployed to Afghanistan in a bid to help with the fight against the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
(COVID-19) outbreak in the country.

Official sources said Tuesday that similar teams are being prepared for the deployment to Sri Lanka, Baghladesh and Bhuttan.

This comes as the Indian Army sent a tam to Maldives last month to help the island nation set up coronavirus testing laboratories and train local medical professionals to fight the pandemic.

The Indian Army also deployed a 15-member team to Kuwait earlier this month as part of bilateral cooperation the two countries, according to Economic Times.

The sources said the teams for Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan are being readied as part of India’s policy of extending helping hand to all friendly countries in the region to fight the pandemic.

This comes as the public health ministry of Afghanistan announced Monday that the officials have recorded more than 1,000 positive cases of coronavirus across the country.

51 new positive cases of coronavirus recorded across Afghanistan in past 24 hours

[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Public Health confirmed confirmed that the new cases were recorded in 11 provinces of the country.

Waheedullah Mayar, a spokesperson for Public Health Ministry, said the officials recorded 28 new cases in Kabul, 3 in Herat, 2 in Ghazni and 4 in Kapisa province.

He also added that 6 other cases were recorded in Nangarhar, 3 in Kunr, 1 in Parwarn, 1 in Bamyan, 1 in Laghman, 1 in Paktiya and 1 in Farah.

According to Ministry of Public Health, the new cases increase the total number of COVID-19 cases to 1,143 which have been recorded since the outbreak of the disease in the country.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top

#1 What type of short straw must you have to draw to be on that detail.
Posted by Cesare 2020-04-23 11:39||   2020-04-23 11:39|| Front Page Top

#2  What type of short straw must you have to draw to be on that detail.

SFOD A
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-23 12:51||   2020-04-23 12:51|| Front Page Top

#3 They're the Army Medical Corps. They go everywhere for this sort of thing. The UN often calls on them for some of the shittiest jobs, like in Sudan.

Sadly, 'soft projection' is all we're willing to do. Because we're surrounded by sasquatch republics and wannabe caliphates, we end up ultimately treating the Ummah. I don't see what strategic advantage there is in this idiot altruism; especially dragging the military into it.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-04-23 13:16||   2020-04-23 13:16|| Front Page Top

#4 SFOD-A, ah yes, the MTT! wherein you get to go to remote areas and build hospitals for people who believe only and resolutely in black magic, build airborne schools for men who only want your jump wings for the ju-ju, and start commando schools for the first 50 guys they round up off the street.

In calmer, whiskey soaked moments I heard it theorized that such excursions were a reverse morale builder. Much in the way that the Foreign Legion tends to starve the men to create a state of pure meaness and aggression, the real purpose of going on MTT's was to engender an absolute disdain for the countries involved and a cheerful willingness to kill their citizens.
Posted by Cesare 2020-04-23 13:54||   2020-04-23 13:54|| Front Page Top

#5 WHAM- winning hearts and minds
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-23 16:35||   2020-04-23 16:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Indian COIN strategy is big on WHAM
Posted by John Frum 2020-04-23 17:28||   2020-04-23 17:28|| Front Page Top

#7 My impression is that Chinese COIN was 'big' of Corruption (bribing elites) and Slaughter (killing provinces full of peasants as a 'Show of Force')...
Posted by magpie 2020-04-23 21:56||   2020-04-23 21:56|| Front Page Top










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