Afghanistan
Trailers and Tractors – Stories of Migration from Afghanistan to beyond.
In the Afghan’s carpet shops letters and photos of female Swedish NGO workers are passed around while a family member just returned from Waziristan talks about his experiences with a Mehsud lashkar which he left to take some days off in cooler Kashmir.
Jemima Khan on Obama, Afghanistan, the WOT, Pakistan
Jemima Khan: The things you say sound great, Mr President. So why do you end up disappointing us?
Why North Waziristan is a bad idea for Pakistan
Ejaz Haider in his Friday Times article explain the Pakistani perspective ‘Why North Waziristan is a bad idea‘.
Flawed basis for our reasoning
Gallup Pakistan has recently published statistics on opinion of Pakistanis and Afghanis on whether the presence of the Taliban in their country has a positive or a negative influence on their homeland. The results were clear, 72% in Pakistan and 79% in Afghanistan see it as a negative influence.
Pakistan’s role in current scenario
Mushahid Hussaind Syed and Gen. (r) Hameed Gul (former DG ISI) analyse Pakistan’s role in current changing scenario in the wake of US forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan. Watch here [Urdu].
The Regional Perspective
I was reading today’s DieZeit articles on Afghanistan, in particular the current discussions in Germany going on over the air strike on petrol trucks in Kunduz and wondering how here in Central Europe the war in Afghanistan is primarily a war over our morale. As McChrystal has suggested we are leading a completely people-centred COIN [...]
History of Durand Line
An insight into areas around Durand Line – the borderline dividing Pakistan and Afghanistan – their history and problems over many centuries and solutions applied. Read full article.
Dog in the well
In Punjabi folklore there is story of a dog that fell into the village well and died. People asked a wise-man what they should do so that the water doesn’t get infected and people suffer from the diseases because of the dead dog. The wise-man asked them to take out 100 bucket loads of water from well so the [...]
Afghanistan: Transition to What?
Unfortunately they have Audio problems half way through. But what you can hear is well worth it. Especially the first part. Michael Semple (is he really wearing Peshawari chappels there?) and Najam Sethi (one of European media’s darlings-trias when it comes to local commenters – Ahmed Rashid, Tariq Ali, Najam Sethi) are bringing in great [...]
the missing sense of war
Matthew Hoh, high ranking diplomat in Afghanistan, quits his job and sums up what more and more politicians and people around the world think: Afghanistan is not to win for anybody (not even the Afghans). read the letter … (in english) read the letter … (in german)
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