AFGHAN WARLORDS HOLD SWAY BEFORE VOTE
“I Only the posters of warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum and the presidential candidate he supports were visible near a rival campaign office in the Afghan city of Sheberghan this week. Others were torn down overnight. “It’s not like Europe or America where you can campaign freely. Dostum has a lot of power in this region,” said Wakil Ghulam Nabi, a prominent businessman and provincial deputy head of the presidential campaign of… >>Read More
SET UP BOARD TO KEEP HATRED OUT OF SOUTH ASIA TEXTBOOKS: EXPERTS
“India is more popular in Afghanistan than the Afghanistan government but it has been reluctant in extending full cooperation to the war-torn country. The policy of India towards Afghanistan was never independent,” said Dr Davood Moradian, director general of Afghan Institute of Strategic Studies…… >>Read More
KARZAI STALLS ON U.S. TROOP PRESENCE IN AFGHANISTAN
In Afghanistan, people are still puzzling over the results of last weekend’s grand assembly of tribal elders, known as the Loya Jirga. For months, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said the gathering was needed to sign off on a security agreement that would allow thousands of U.S. troops to stay in the country after 2014. The elders approved the deal. They called on Karzai to sign it as soon as possible, and Karzai baulked….. >>Read More
KARZAI IS PLAYING WITH FIRE
Kabul. And he has done it again: Afghan President Hamid Karzai opened the deliberations of the elders about the security agreement with the United States with a renewed affront to the existing protective power…. >>Read More
WILL REMAIN MILITARILY ENGAGED IN AFGHANISTAN BEYOND 2014: GERMANY
KABUL: A senior German diplomat says that Germany will maintain its military presence in Afghanistan post-2014, even if no consensus is reached between Afghanistan and the US on a stalled security pact…. >>Read More
GERMANY IS WILLING TO STAY IN AFGHANISTAN POST-2014: KÖNIG
The Ambassador said that nonexistence of a security agreement between Afghanistan and the US will not create any legal obstruction on the military presence of other NATO member countries in Afghanistan… >>Read More
سفارت آلمان در افغانستان: حضور و کمک های ما در افغانستان تا سال 2017 ادامه می یابد
پنجشنبه ١٠ اسد ١٣٩٢
به گفته این سفارت، ماموریت آلمان در افغانستان هنوز تکمیل نشده و به همین دلیل، نیروهای آلمانی افغانستان را پس از سال 2014 ترک نمی کند >>Read More
WHY ARE AFGHANS AFRAID OF 2014
On a recent trip to Kabul, this was one of the first questions I asked a good friend who for years professed unending love for his girlfriend. “I’m waiting for 2014,” he said. “I’ll see what happens and decide what to do after that.Waiting for 2014” is an increasingly common theme in Afghanistan, where uncertainty is growing about what will happen when foreign troops finally leave the country….. >>Read More
AISS REPRESENTATIVE TO TEDX KABUL
“On 5 December 2013 AISS research fellow Richard Ghiasy gave a presentation at TEDx Kabul on the development potential of Afghanistan….. >>Read More
US AMBASSADOR: ZERO OPTION NOT IN INTEREST OF EITHER SIDE
KABUL- US Ambassador James B. Cunningham has said withdrawing all troops from Afghanistan after 2014 will not be in the interest of either country, downplaying the so called zero option… >>Read More
