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KABUL: Already tense US and NATO ties with Afghanistan were dealt another blow on Wednesday with photographs appearing in an American newspaper of US soldiers posing with the maimed bodies of dead Afghan insurgents.
Senior US officials …

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Achieving peace in Afghanistan is not the benchmark for success but Kabul’s ability to fight insurgents, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has declared.

“Our strategy is designed to ensure Afghanistan can wage counter-insurgency beyond 2014,” she said.
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Teams of militants attack major symbols of Afghan and foreign power, but the number of casualties is relatively low.

Afghan security forces rush to the site of a battle in Kabul, the
capital of Afghanistan. (Ahmad Jamshid, …

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The United States has admitted it lacks evidence to convict the Pakistani leader Hafiz Saeed of terrorism despite slapping a $10m (£6.3 million) bounty on his head for his capture and conviction.

The decision to name …

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By Ejaz Haider
American humorist Will Cuppy penned satirical sketches of historical figures and called the work The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody. Of Nero, the infamous emperor, he wrote: “In some respects Nero was ahead of his …

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Jama’at-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, accused by India of masterminding the 2008 Mumbai attacks and for whom the US has announced a bounty of $10 million, said Tuesday this was because he had opposing the re-opening …

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Marines and sailors on Friday that Congress would be irresponsible if it doesn’t act to prevent drastic military budget cuts.
In a visit to this amphibious assault ship off the Southern California …

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By Philip Giraldi
March 29, 2012 “Antiwar” –  It is interesting to note just how well this imperialism thing has worked for the American people. At the end of last year the U.S. was kicked out …

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The PCNS recommendations also call for an “End to drone strikes, no hot pursuit by US forces inside Pakistan, strong oversight of the activities of foreign security contractors and the imposition of taxes on the …

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A Pakistani journalist, Mr. Ansar Abbasi, Editor Investigations at Pakistan’s largest media house, criticizes the new terms of engagements with the United States. He is also critical of the way the free Pakistani media is …

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WASHINGTON — In a bid to save the CIA’s drone campaign against al-Qaida in Pakistan, U.S. officials offered key concessions to Pakistan’s spy chief that included advance notice and limits on the types of targets. …

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U.S. negotiation efforts with the Taliban have failed and the United Nations should take the lead to optimize the chances of ending almost 11 years of war, a think tank said on Monday.
In a blow …

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KABUL: The West is prepared to pull out of Afghanistan without a settlement and attempts to negotiate with the Taliban are unlikely to lead to lasting peace, a respected think tank warned on Monday.
In a …

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PKKH Exclusive by Kulsoom Khan with additional reporting by Tabish Qayyum
The aftermath of the French killings has once again unveiled the anti-Islam front the French government openly endorses. When reports first surfaced of a murderer …

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WASHINGTON - Former CIA head and current US Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta, had wanted to establish a parallel spy body inside Pakistan hidden from ISI, a noted Pakistani author said, adding the idea was approved by the Obama Administration.
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ISLAMABAD: Amid apparently strained relations between Pakistan and United States, a mini-America is in the making in the heart of Islamabad.
After controversies of Blackwater, Raymond Davis, the hiring of dozens of houses in Islamabad for …

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Gruesome new details are surfacing after 16 Afghan villagers including nine children were shot in their houses by at least one US serviceman. Witnesses to the atrocity now say that several drunken American soldiers were …

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By Brig Imran Malik
Maverick US Congressmen Rep Dana Rohrabacher (R-California) and Rep Lousie Gohmert (R-Texas) may have laid the foundation of what may eventually turn out to be yet another disastrous US foreign policy faux …

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U.S. officials said they were shocked by Sunday’s killings in which an American soldier is accused of going house to house and opening fire on 16 Afghan civilians, including women and children. But attacks on …

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By Gary Fields
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Sunday the U.S. should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, calling the mission “undoable.”
In some of his strongest language about the role of the U.S. in Afghanistan, Mr. …

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United States military personnel are currently present in India to assist the country with counter-terrorism and in containing Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based militant group, a BBC report revealed on Friday.
India blames LeT, which means ‘The Army …

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Akhtar Jamal
Islamabad—The recent un-publicized visit of an Israeli intelligence team led by MOSSAD chief to New Delhi and ongoing liaison with top Indian spymasters are seen here as a new plot to destabilize Pakistan and …

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ISLAMABAD: US stymied a planned official apology over the November 26 attack, The New York Times reported on Friday.
According to their report, the US had arranged for General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs …

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ISLAMABAD – A large number of people protested against the US policies on Monday as they gathered under the umbrella of Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) in the heart of federal capital Monday.
The lively and charged crowd …