Eight Afghan policemen killed in US air strike: officials

[barbarosa]

Karzai always criticized the same accident during his age but Ghani does not lay eggs and nor call azan.

 

[X-2.]

Eight Afghan policemen killed in US air strike: officials
By Reuters
Published: September 19, 2016
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An Afghan security serviceman keep watch at a damaged police post following an airstrike in Bati Kot district in Nangarhar province on August 1, 2013. PHOTO: AFP

LASHKAR GAH, AFGHANISTAN: A US air strike killed as many as eight Afghan policemen outside the embattled provincial capital of Uruzgan province, Afghan officials said on Monday, as security forces, supported by US strikes, battle resurgent Taliban militants.

An initial air strike late on Sunday killed one police personnel, while a follow up strike targeted first responders, killing at least seven, said Rahimullah Khan, commander of the reserve police unit in Uruzgan.

Another official, Uruzgan deputy police chief Mohammed Qawi Omari, put the death toll at six but also reported the police were killed by a foreign air strike.

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The US military command in Kabul confirmed its warplanes had conducted an air strike in the area, but said they targeted “individuals firing on, and posing a threat to” Afghan national security forces.

“We don’t have any further information on who those individuals might have been or why they were attacking ANDSF (Afghan national defense and security forces),” US military spokesperson Brigadier General Charles Cleveland said in a statement.

“US, coalition, and Afghan forces have the right to self-defense and in this case were responding to an immediate threat.”

Afghan officials said they were investigating the attack and were in contact with the US-led coalition.

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Afghan security forces, supported by American air strikes and international military advisers, are battling Taliban militants who have fought a 15-year insurgency against the Western-backed government in Kabul.

Taliban fighters briefly entered Uruzgan’s capital city, Tarin Kot, in early September, according to provincial officials, before being pushed back by security forces.

Will they standing with Indians at Un conference to blame Pakistan for this too

 

[Indiran Chandiran]

Isolating Pakistan In South Asia Should Be Our Major Priority

by G Parthasarathy

Shortly after the end of the Kargil conflict, I had occasion to have lunch with the most dreaded of ISI Chiefs, Lt Gen Hamid Gul. Predictably, the conversation turned to Pakistan's Kargil debacle. Gen Gul spelt out his Kashmir ambitions, making it clear that Pakistan would not change course, despite what transpired in Kargil. He averred that Kashmir would be made an issue of the "Rights of Muslims" in India, who would unite to secure Kashmir for Pakistan.

This assertion represents the core of the thinking of Pakistan's Punjabi-dominated military elite. They firmly believe they are inheritors of the Mughal Empire. They believe "devious" Hindus have denied them their inheritance. They recall Mohammad Ali Jinnah's lament that he got a "moth-eaten Pakistan", which disregarded his territorial claims that included the whole of Bengal and Punjab -apart from Hyderabad, Junagadh, Bhopal and even Jodhpur.

The army has not yet forgotten the humiliation of 1971 and believes it can engineer the progressive breakup of India through a "lowintensity conflict". It refuses to accept that respecting religious, linguistic and ethnic diversity can be an enduring basis for national unity . The army's instruction manuals in training institutions focus on how to exploit "vulnerabilities" in India's body politic.

Within Pa kistan's Punjab, there is little realisation that Punjabi domination led to the birth of Bangladesh. And that it is now leading to growing alienation in Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Over 200,000 Pakistani troops are deployed in Balochistan and KP, bordering Afghanistan.

Given their inability to provide recipes for good governance and growth, Pakistan's army and major parties like Imran Khan's Tehriq-eInsaf find India's problems in Jammu & Kashmir an ideal issue to divert public attention. They are convinced that prising Kashmir from India will lead to India's inevitable fragmentation, restoring to them what they believe are the glories of the Mughal Empire. This may seem like pipedreams, but we would go seriously wrong if we do not recognise this reality.

Our military response (overt and covert) to Pakistan-sponsored terrorism leading to the Uri attack should be calibrated, while making it clear to Pakistan that any escalation would only cause it more harm. The remedy for this malady is complex.We should recognise that the Pakistan army has no intention of surrendering its stranglehold on power.

India's policies should ensure that the Pakistan army is discredited in Pakistan and across the world. Baluchistan is not the only issue to be raised. The army is also carrying out operations against its own people in KP and Sindh. Put bluntly , it will involve paying the ISI back in its own coin.

Isolating Pakistan in South Asia should be our ma jor priority . The next SAARC summit is scheduled in Islamabad in November. India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh have already lowered their level of participation in Saarc events in Islamabad. The three countries should retain this solidarity on their participation in the Islamabad summit and even consider boycotting it.

We can now promote regional economic cooperation in South Asia, excluding Pakistan, through forums like BIMSTEC, which brings together our eastern Saarc neighbours, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, with Myanmar and Thailand. We have the beginnings of a trilateral transit partnership to our west comprising India, Iran and Afghanistan.

After 911 and the terrorist attack in California involving Pakistani nationals, there is resentment in the US against Pakistan. It is clear that irrespective of who wins the race to the White House, sympathy for Pakistan is waning in the US, as it is in the UK and the EU.There has to be a relentless diplomatic campaign to build on this sentiment.

The writer is a former Indian high commissioner to Pakistan


http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Iso...e-our-major-priority/articleshow/54417990.cms

 

[That Guy]

I'm literally rolling my eyes right now. For a former high commissioner, you'd expect something a lot of sensible.

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

This is the reason why all this war hysteria coming from Indian side....They don't want Pakistan to compete with them...They want absolute economical and militarily leverage over all south asia....Pakistan is the only one who can neutralize India....a reality which gives them extreme pain in ***...

 

[gslv mk3]

Pakistan is the only one who can neutralize India.

Neutralize like what?

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

This is the reason why all this war hysteria coming from Indian side....They don't want Pakistan to compete with them...They want absolute economical and militarily leverage over all south asia....Pakistan is the only one who can neutralize India....a reality which gives them extreme pain in ***...

Unfortunately, in this world, if you fear something the most, it never fails to occur (e.g., death)...

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

Neutralize like what?

militarily, we can neutralize India despite smaller than India...Economically, we can become a successful economy only behind India...However we were ahead in economy in past....Anything can happen...

 

[coffee_cup]

YAWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.

How about starting the isolation process by leaving this forum?

 

[Max]

Good luck for convincing Nepal, Sri Lanka, China and Iran

Afghanistan and BD govt are always ready to bark against us whether we do anything against bhartis or not..

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

Unfortunately, in this world, if you fear something the most, it never fails to occur (e.g., death)...

Golden sentence...saved it...

 

[gslv mk3]

militarily, we can neutralize India despite smaller than India...Economically, we can become a successful economy only behind India...However we were ahead in economy in past....Anything can happen...

In military Pakistan lags behind India in conventional fire power.

In Economy Pakistan lags even in per capita term & present GDP growth rates do not predict any change in that. Even if you catch up, we'll be 6 times larger (presently 8.2 times larger)

 

[saiyan0321]

I'm literally rolling my eyes right now. For a former high commissioner, you'd expect something a lot of sensible.

Agreed. Although such low class articles are expected of Indian media especially TOI, but considering the writer was a high commissioner to pakistan, one would have expected more intelligent and fruitful content.

The thing is that this content is very famous and now in with majority of the people of India who will not only gain satisfaction from this drivel but also believe this nonsensical rubbish which is completely detached of ground realities as well as current affairs. At one time such content was expected of low class posters and social media warriors but recently ( whether its due to their media or they themselves have become like them), there has been a massive of growth of hysterical claims and statements that are far from ground realities

I don't even know where to begin correcting this and I am wondering if it's worth the effort. Those that want to learn, they do research and those that don't want to learn, won't listen anyhow.

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

In military Pakistan lags behind India in conventional fire power.

In Economy Pakistan lags even in per capita term & present GDP growth rates do not predict any change in that. Even if you catch up, we'll be 6 times larger (presently 8.2 times larger)

hmm...

 

[Max]

n Economy Pakistan lags even in per capita term & present GDP growth rates do not predict any change in that. Even if you catch up, we'll be 6 times larger (presently 8.2 times larger)

You will have 7 times more population as well.. and dear bharti Pakistan have better GDP per capita 60 out of 69 years, if bharti can catch us so does we..