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8May

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Pak-Afghan Stability is Inter-related

NOVANEWS By Sajjad Shaukat Pakistan’s Army Chief Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on April 24, this year in Brussels in a meeting hosted by the US Secretary of State John Kerry aimed at easing tensions over border disputes and the stalled peace process. Recently, tension arose between Pakistan and Afghanistan when Kabul blamed Islamabad for mortar attacks and construction of security wall inside Afghanistan including deployment of Pakistani soldiers across the Pak-Afghan border. On the other side, Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Office and Army Spokesman Maj-Gen. Asim Bajwa strongly rejected Afghan allegations regarding any intrusion near the Pak-Afghan border. Reliable sources suggest that Kerry failed to bridge the differences between Islamabad an...

6May

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WAKW UP AMERIKA: Heroin, Cash & Plastic Bags: America’s Mess in Afghanistan

NOVANEWS If the lawlessness, poverty, and endemic corruption of Afghanistan are indicative of anything, it is that the multi-billion dollar efforts to restore stability in the region have been an abject failure. RT As the scheduled 2014 reduction of American-led NATO troops moves closer, the occupying forces leave behind a state where none of their initial goals have been realized. The Afghan central government is weak and hopelessly corrupt, the national armed forces are disorganized and resentful of foreign presence, the Taliban still wield notable influence, women remain extremely marginalized, Afghans are trapped in abject poverty, and the occupiers themselves continue to shoulder the responsibility for heavy civilian causalities. Tens of billions have been poured into Afgh...

5May

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Afghan resistance advancing to victory

NOVANEWS Proletarian issue 50 (October 2012) Imperialists call on ‘Guardian Angels’ to release them from Afghan hell. Recent weeks have seen an intensification of the resistance in Afghanistan that has astounded western onlookers in its scope and audacity.Green on blue Having infiltrated the ranks of the comprador police and army, resistance forces have unleashed a barrage of attacks from behind enemy lines, taking the occupation powers by surprise and completely destroying the confidence of the imperialist armies to operate jointly with their groomed cannon-fodder pawns. So common have attacks on the occupation by what are supposed to be the Nato armies’ ‘Afghan allies’ that a new phrase has been coined to describe the phenomenon: ‘green on blue’ (green being Afghan N...

25Apr

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Afghanistan, USA

US Combat Drones to Stay in Afghanistan Beyond 2014

NOVANEWS Though the US military continues its drawdown from Afghanistan, long after combat troops are gone by the end of the 2014, one factor that will remain the same is the presence of American combat drones. RT Air Force Major General H.D. Polumbo, the commander of the joint US-NATO air war over Afghanistan, confirmed to reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday that armed drones will still fly over Afghanistan, along with some fixed-wing fighters and bombers. “They can collect intelligence, but they also are armed. And they’re armed to be able to provide force protection to our coalition forces and then when our coalition ground force commanders, when they deem it appropriate, they can control that air-delivered munition capability from the RPAs to be put in support of the Afg...

22Apr

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Afghanistan, USA

Reporter Asks White House if U.S. Airstrikes That Kill Afghan Civilians Qualify as ‘Terrorism (Audio)

NOVANEWS by JGVibes The reporter who asked the question is Amina Ismail, a journalist at McClatchy. I urge you to thank her for asking it (her twitter handle is @AminaIsmail) because I can’t imagine it was easy given how extremely rare and frowned upon it is to challenge the dominant “war on terror” narrative. by Rania Khalek Dispatches From the Under Class Matthew Keys, the social media editor at Reuters, posted audio of a reporter asking White House Press Secretary Jay Carney if U.S. bombings that kill innocent civilians in Afghanistan constitute an “act of terror” given the labeling of the Boston Marathon bombing as “terrorism”. She specifically refers to a U.S. airstrike earlier this month that killed 11 children, just the latest in a seemingly endlessline of Afghan civili...

22Apr

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Afghanistan, Pakistan & Kashmir

Issue of Pak-Afghan Border Incursions

NOVANEWS By Sajjad Shaukat Recently tension arose between Pakistan and Afghanistan when a spokesman of Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs blamed Islamabad for continuation of mortar attacks and construction of security wall inside Afghanistan including deployment of Pakistani soldiers across the Pak-Afghan border. While, hundreds of Afghan university students in Jalalabad took to the streets on April 15, this year and protested incursions from Pakistani side, as demonstration was sparked by a statement of Afghan President Hamid Karzai who ordered his top officials on April 14 to take immediate action to remove the gate and other “Pakistani military installations near the Durand Line.” On the other side, Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Office strongly rejected Afghan allegations regarding any in...

19Apr

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Afghanistan, USA

Reporter Asks White House if U.S. Airstrikes That Kill Afghan Civilians Qualify as ‘Terrorism’

NOVANEWS by Rania Khalek UPDATE: The reporter who asked the question is Amina Ismail, a journalist at McClatchy. I urge you to thank her for asking it (her twitter handle is @AminaIsmail) because I can’t imagine it was easy given how extremely rare and frowned upon it is to challenge the dominant “war on terror” narrative, especially as a female reporter with an Arab-sounding name. And Amina, if you’re reading this, thanks for kicking ass! * * * * Matthew Keys, the social media editor at Reuters, posted audio of a reporter asking White House Press Secretary Jay Carney if U.S. bombings that kill innocent civilians in Afghanistan constitute an “act of terror” given the labeling of the Boston Marathon bombing as “terrorism”. She specifically refers to a U.S. airstrike earlier this month that...

15Apr

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‘Karzai should call on US forces to leave’

NOVANEWS Co-founder of Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement says Afghan President Hamid Karzai should call on U.S.-led foreign forces to leave Afghanistan. “The Americans and the other NATO countries would not be in his (Karzai’s) country killing these Afghans, not just Afghan children, but Afghan men and women as well, for the fact that he has surrendered the sovereignty of his country to these foreign powers … these acts would not have taken place, not for the fact he has allowed these murderous armies to come in and to kill his own people”. “So Mr. Karzai, if you want to see your people delivered from this terrible scourge of Western military intervention then all you need to do is to tell them [U.S.-led foreign forces] to leave and then begin forming alliances with other powerful ...

9Apr

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Afghanistan, Syria, USA

From Afghanistan to Syria: Women’s Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA

NOVANEWS By Julie Lévesque Global Research Women’s rights are increasingly heralded as a useful propaganda device to further imperial designs. Western heads of state, UN officials and military spokespersons will invariably praise the humanitarian dimension of the October 2001 US-NATO led invasion of Afghanistan, which allegedly was to fight religious fundamentalists, help little girls go to school, liberate women subjected to the yoke of the Taliban. The logic of such a humanitarian dimension of the Afghan war is questionable. Lest we forget, Al Qaeda and the Taliban were supported from the very outset of the Soviet-Afghan war by the US, as part of a CIA led covert operation. As described by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA): The US and her allies tried to...

8Apr

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Eleven children, one woman dead in NATO air strike

NOVANEWS Reuters Eleven children and a woman were killed by an air strike during a NATO operation targeting Taliban commanders in eastern Afghanistan, officials in the region said Sunday. Civilian deaths have been a long-running source of friction between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his international backers. Karzai has forbidden Afghan troops from calling for air strikes and NATO advise crews not to fire at or bomb in populated areas. Six insurgents – two of them senior Taliban leaders – were killed during the operation in a village in Shigal district in Kunar province, which is on the Pakistani border, on Saturday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The Interior Ministry did not mention any civilian casualties but Wasefullah Wasefi, a spokesman for the provincial governor...