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Sorry Mr. Super Crap,
Get a life and some knowledge on the way and maybe get laid too.
I am just summing up the quality of your Harry Potter posts.
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US has learnt bitter experience in afghanistan.They dont have experience of gurilla war fare.
You dont need money in gurilla war ,you need just unity,faith,decipline in nation.
Attacks difficult to explain, says Zardari : No US assurance to halt missile strikes
* Petraeus meets Gen Kayani and Gen Majid
* Pakistan seeks help for Bajaur displaced
* US team informed about security needs
ISLAMABAD: United States Central Command chief General David Petraeus did not guarantee an end to US drone attacks in Pakistani in a meeting with Pakistan’s top leaders on Monday.
Pakistan’s most high profile protest yet came as Gen Petraeus met with top civil and military leaders in his first visit here since he took over his new position last week, amid claims that it could signal a shift in strategy in Afghanistan.
“Pakistani leaders told General Petraeus it is not possible to ask our people to support the war on terror when our sovereignty is violated every day,” sources familiar with the interaction told Daily Times. US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher accompanied Petraeus.
According to an official statement, Zardari warned the US general the missile strikes were ‘counterproductive’ and “difficult to explain by a democratically-elected government”. “It is creating a credibility gap,” he said.
“The president said that US leadership has affirmed respect for Pakistan’s territorial integrity,” the statement said.
Boucher and Petraeus also met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani and National Security Adviser Mehmood Ali and senior US and Pakistani officials were also present.
An Inter-Services Public Relations statement said Petraeus separately met with Gen Kayani and Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman General Tariq Majid.
Gen Majid told the US delegation the two countries needed a “consensus strategy to deal with violent extremism” that “keeps in view the local perspective”, the statement said.
Earlier, Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar and Petraeus “stressed the need for enhanced co-operation to eliminate the scourge of terrorism”.
Bajaur displaced: Sources said Mukhtar also sought international help for the people displaced because of the military operation in Bajaur Agency.
Security needs: The American delegation was also briefed on Pakistan’s security needs to enhance its operational capability to fight terrorism.
Gen Patraeus said that they would consider the requests.
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Salaam!
A brief situation awareness point of view!
Situation Afghanistan:
US/Nato/Isaf forces are overall losing control of key areas in afghanistan:
1) Afghan government primarily exercises control in Kabul region....and even this area has seen Taliban activity.
3) Certain governmernts such as the Canadians and a few others have indicated a withdrawal dates for their forces).
4) The frustration of not being able to successfully achieve their goals in Afghanistan has resulted in them focusing on the borders of Pakistan. HOWEVER, this could cause much problems for them - it will not eradicate terrorism or defeat Taliban.....it could potentially make a nation more unstable as is the case with Pakistan. Do the global powers want a NUCLEAR ARMED failed state?
All in all, A big game is being played...by everyone. A recent strike in which a 'Taliban' leader was killed...was later to be confirmed as a serving senior Pakistan military officer. The Pakistan governments are playing realist political card. Pakistan has not lost interest in the Taliban...hence they are still getting funds/training from the secret services of Pakistan.
In addition, the Iranians have increased their funding/support of the Taliban forces (to keep the ISAF forces bogged down) and also funding discrete individuals to minimise Pakistan support.
The Indians (primarily RAW) are taking full advantages of the situation and have supplied to key 'rogue' elements within the Taliban/Al-qaeda groups....it is alledged that RAW have approximately 10,000 operatives of various abilities within Pakistan (mainly disgruntled and greedy groups who are willing to destroy various resources of Pakistan for monetary sums) Hence, Pakistan is retaliating....you then see certain incidents in India.
If Pakistan does not want these UAV incursions, then it does have the ability to stop this. Pakistan can reduce NATO/ISAF/US supplies from Pakistan....this would then be a logistical nightmare for the foreign forces...it would escate further their costs in this conflict.
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lol isnt that your country who never won a war in Korea,vietnam,Iraq and Afganistan wat a pussy army and if US does go to war wit Pakistan is going to be an epic fail your army is going to get butt raped so do you pussy piece of sh!t and Pakistan Nuclear bomb can target up to 27000km and from our submarnie it does seem that far and more likely it is going to happened will will protect Pakistan @ all cost you will lose the war and @ the current situation Georgia vs Russia why arent you helping georgie ? Pakistan help gain Turkey to get Independence i am sure Turkey will return the favor and China wont allow US to any interset in south Asia its going to put China on a bad position it US decided to go War wit Pakistan
An....the vast amount of this information is available from open source intelligence material. You just need to dig up information on various intelligence agencies and the political remarks given. See Dawn/Jang/Cnn?bbc news/Various think tanks, Chatham House, Janes Defence, Islamabad Think tanks...etc......Unfortunately I do not have the time to dig up this information. However, if I come across any...I will post it.
Sorry mate but having read what you have posted it is mostly hyperbole.
For example I have seen the same footage as you and generally the Taliban run away. IED's and suicide bombers are generally the way the casualties are created.
The other Nato members are not withdrawing but moving into stabilisation roles.Instead of offensive roles. however the troop surges from other nations would increase the overall numbers.
The rest of what you have posted has little or no basis in reality old fruit. My sources have given me a better insight and it contrasts quite differently with yours.
Unless you can bring your various source into a form of some sort than i am afraid We can't take what you written seriously.
Sorry mate but having read what you have posted it is mostly hyperbole.
For example I have seen the same footage as you and generally the Taliban run away. IED's and suicide bombers are generally the way the casualties are created.
The other Nato members are not withdrawing but moving into stabilisation roles.Instead of offensive roles. however the troop surges from other nations would increase the overall numbers.
The rest of what you have posted has little or no basis in reality old fruit. My sources have given me a better insight and it contrasts quite differently with yours.
Unless you can bring your various source into a form of some sort than i am afraid We can't take what you written seriously.
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salaam!
. Please note, a large proprtion of foreign forces in the areas are 'special forces' or their near equivalents....i.e. Royal marine commandos, Paras, and US equivalent forces. Despite this, they have not done as good as one expects. Look on the BBC website about the response given by Brit forces in Helmand Province.[/COLOR][/B]
2)The other Nato members are not withdrawing but moving into stabilisation roles.Instead of offensive roles. however the troop surges from other nations would increase the overall numbers.
- in response to this:
Source: CBC News
Western forces in Afghanistan will never be able to win the war against insurgents and may need to include the Taliban in any long-term solution, Britain's senior commander in the country says in a report.
An absolute military victory in Afghanistan is impossible, Brig.-Gen. Mark Carleton-Smith told England's Sunday Times newspaper.
What foreign forces must now come to grips with, he said, is reducing the level of insurgency so that it can be managed by Afghan forces and no longer poses a major threat.
"We may well leave with there still being a low but steady ebb of rural insurgency I dont think we should expect that when we go there wont be roaming bands of armed men in this part of the world," Carleton-Smith was quoted as saying.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/10/04/afghan-war.htm...
From The Sunday TimesOctober 5, 2008
Relentless Taliban just keep coming
As their gruelling tour of duty in Afghanistan ends, men of 2 Para tell of relentless battles with an enemy that simply doesnt know when he is outgunned
AS the Afghan sun set over the end-of-tour memorial service last Wednesday at British headquarters in Lashkar Gah, 32 names of the dead, aged between 19 and 52, were solemnly read out, including that of the first woman killed, Corporal Sarah Bryant. Almost every other name, it seemed, was from 2 Para.
The 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment lost more lives than any other section of 16 Air Assault Brigade 11 in total, and five in one week in June or one in 10 of the unit.
Over the past few days, as the paras flew back to Camp Bastion at the start of their journey home, the mood was sombre. 2 Para took the bulk of the casualties, said Sergeant Andrew Lamont.
I lost a few good friends Ive known for 12 years. Others lost limbs. But when youre out on the bases you just get on. If anything it encourages you to fight to the best of your ability. Only now, as were going home without them, is it really sinking in.
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War on Taliban can't be won, says chief
Grim reality of life beyond Helmandshire
The most recent victim was popular Lance-Corporal Nicky Mason, killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol keeping the Taliban away from the Kajaki dam. It was a big shock to everybody, said Lamont, who was just a few hundred yards away when he heard the blast. When I got back to camp I actually had a cigarette, the first Id smoked in 19 years.
It was not supposed to be that way. Unlike 16 Air Assault Brigades first tour in Helmand two years ago, when the then defence secretary John Reid declared that he hoped not a single shot would be fired, they were well prepared this time.
They had almost twice as many men 7,800 troops and four combat battalions, consisting of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions the Parachute Regiment and two battalions of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. Their commander, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, declared them the best equipped force the British Army has ever sent.
But the Taliban have also changed tactics, increasingly using improvised explosive devices (IEDs), hiring foreign fighters from Chechnya and Uzbekistan as well as from Pakistan, and even managing to lure defectors from the Afghan national army who had been trained by British and American forces by offering to double their £90-a-month combat pay.
Capitalising on an increasingly unpopular government in Kabul and growing anger at civilian casualties, the Taliban now present themselves as less hardline, promising if they return to power they will no longer ban kites or demand quite such long beards.
As he prepared to hand over to the marines, Carleton-Smith admitted that it had been an intense summer. But he insisted: That intensity has been less a product of resurgent Taliban and more the result of a larger international military footprint. Were controlling more, our perimeter is wider, more people are living in our enclaves.
He said British forces had killed six senior or mid-level Taliban commanders and successfully transported a US-funded turbine to the Kajaki dam to prepare the way for a supply of electricity.
Weve taken the sting out of the Taliban for 2008, he said. As autumn turns to winter those who are foreign will return home and restore themselves and only reappear after the poppy harvest in May or June.
The number of civilians caught in the crossfire has also been reduced. Weve dropped fewer bombs than on any of the previous missions, said Carleton-Smith.
Yet, while the British claim 78% of the population lives in their zones, the governor of Helmand says half the province is under Taliban control and they are fighting in Nad Ali, less than 10 miles from brigade headquarters in Lashkar Gah.
Carleton-Smith acknowledges the preponderance of Taliban ringtones proclaiming Death to the Invader that are heard on the street, but dismisses them as quite a good insurance policy to have on your phone. He insists that the very conventional battlefield of 2006 no longer applies.
For those engaged in the fighting, it certainly seemed like war, particularly to the men of 2 Para who lost so many comrades.
Sergeant Phil Stout, 34, commander of one of C companys three rifle platoons, lost five men from his 30-man unit, one to an IED and the others in firefights. Stationed at Forward Operating Base Gibraltar in the upper Gereshk valley, he had only been in theatre two weeks when two Royal Marines who were due to go home were killed on patrol. That really brought home theres a real threat out there, he said.
The platoons first big contact was on June 12. That day is marked in my head. Two of his men, Lance-Corporal James Bateman and Private Jeff Doherty, were killed when ambushed by the Taliban while out on patrol. The amount of firepower was phenomenal; they must have had their finger on the trigger the whole time.
From then to the present day it never stopped, said Stout. We were getting contacts every day, some just pot-shots at the base, others much more. We always outnumber and outpower them with our weapons but they keep coming back. I reckon theyre crazy. Two of them would try to take on a company. Thats not good odds.
The relentless attacks reduced the area in which British forces could operate. When we arrived we could patrol up to the top of our operating area, 8-9km north, but by the end we couldnt go more than 1-1Åkm, Stout said.
The worst threat was from IEDs. Theyre very crude devices and we got good at identifying them, but its always in your head, Am I going to lie on something or kneel on something and get blown up?
Conditions were basic. Food was usually 10-man ration packs, ammunition containers sufficed as chairs and tables, and the only washing facilities were solar showers. It was so basic that I was really excited when we got a welfare pack from a teacher with wet wipes and toothbrushes, he said.
When he started suffering from stomach pain, Stout blamed the way they were living and dosed himself with paracetamol. Then he collapsed and had to be medi-vacced back to the UK. His gall bladder was about to burst and he was lucky to have survived. Yet as soon as he had recovered he returned to Afghanistan, much to the horror of his wife.
With him at FOB Gibraltar was Corporal Scott Bourne, 26. I knew it was always worse in summer than winter but thought it was bigged up in the media before I came, he laughed. His view changed when, on June 10, he narrowly escaped being blown up by a suicide bomber.
Two days later he was on patrol when there was an ambush by 30-40 Taliban. After that it was every couple of days. By the end we could go less distance than at the beginning and we were just pushing, pushing, fighting Taliban off.
Lamont, commander of one of 2 Paras fire support groups, spent his entire tour based at Kajaki. When we first arrived it was the poppy harvest, so fighting was low, but then the maize grew so they had more cover and fighting got more intense, he said.
If anything Id say its getting worse. Taliban tactics are changing, using more IEDs, and they dont back down.
Lamont at first operated from a Wimik, an armed Land Rover, but near the end of the tour he was equipped with one of the new Jackals, a much better protected vehicle.
Its one of the best things the government has done for us, he said. It saved three of my boys lives.
Two weeks ago they were on patrol when an IED blew up the vehicle behind him. I heard this huge explosion and turned around thinking the worst, he said. All I could see was this massive wall of smoke. Then two guys started to walk towards me, the driver and the commander. The gunman had been thrown out. If wed had the old vehicles wed have lost all three guys.
While getting the turbine to Kajaki was the high point of the tour, Carleton-Smith admits that the low point was sustaining so many casualties. In June Britains 100th soldier died in Afghanistan.
Our casualty figures have been substantial but they have to be kept in context, he says. We may in the course of 2008 have in the region of 50 fatalities in Helmand, but in 1972 more than 100 British soldiers were killed in Northern Ireland, on our own streets.
He insists that time is on the side of the Afghan government. The young people want betterment of their lives. What the Taliban cant do is deliver progress and development. As long as the international community can stay the course, over time the Afghan government capacity will grow.
He argues that the international community should aim not for victory over the Taliban but to reduce the insurgency to a level that can be contained by the new Afghan army.
If we reduce our expectations then I think realistically in the next three to five years we will be handing over tactical military responsibility to the Afghan army and in the next 10 years the bulk of responsibility for combating insurgency will be with them.
Flying out through the dustbowl that is Camp Bastion, and watching all the building going on below, it seems the British Army is digging itself in for a very long campaign.
[B]Canada's desire to leave Afghanistan by 2011?[/B]
Harper sticks by 2011 troop withdrawal date
Harper sticks by 2011 troop withdrawal date
Liberals insist on rebuilding Afghanistan; Layton wants to talk to insurgents
Mike Blanchfield, Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, September 25
The Canadian Forces mission in Afghanistan is to either end, or change dramatically, by 2011.
That is the deadline Parliament has authorized for Canada's 2,500 troops to remain in Kandahar, the heart of the southern Afghanistan insurgency, and where the Canadian Forces have been involved in some of the heaviest combat that NATO allies have seen in the country.
Yet, Canada's efforts to stamp out the Taliban insurgency and the slow pace of rebuilding Afghanistan has not emerged as a hot issue in the federal election campaign.
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Font:****Election polls place Afghanistan well behind the economy, the environment and health care as an issue. Still, the country remains divided and questions persist about what Canada will do in 2011. Depending on NATO allies, withdrawing from Kandahar to a safer part of Afghanistan may not be an option.
Although staying longer is a possibility, indications are the government has grown weary of the reluctance of some Western European allies to embrace the heavy fighting in the south and may be ready to stick to the withdrawal schedule.
Where they stand:
- Conservatives: The Conservatives are committed to training as many Afghan police and soldiers as possible, helping rebuild the Dahla Dam, a signature aid project that would show tangible Canadian goodwill toward the people of Kandahar province, as well as repairing schools, training teachers and fostering better governance -- all by 2011. The benchmarks for measuring success are vague. During the campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada would be out of Kandahar as scheduled.
- Liberals: The Liberals make clear that Canadian troops must leave Kandahar by 2011, and that the mission must go beyond "an exclusively military focus" and aim towards greater development and diplomacy. The Liberal platform does not explain how this shift would work in the face of an unhindered guerrilla insurgency that targets innocent civilians and employs hit-and-run tactics on Canada and its allies.
- New Democrats: The party is opposed to Parliament's extension of Canada's military involvement in Afghanistan and wants the troops brought home. Leader Jack Layton wants a negotiated end to the war with the Taliban, but has not specifically explained how such talks would transpire with the most hardened al-Qaida and Taliban militants, who have made the unconditional withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan and the restoration of fundamentalist Islamic law their core demand.
© The Edmonton Journal 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 15:40
[B]Pakistan's goals? double??[/B]
AFP News Briefs List
Pakistan replaces chief of powerful spy agency by Masroor Gilani
Print Pakistan has appointed a new head of its powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, amid US accusations that the military spy organisation secretly backs Taliban rebels on the Afghan border.
Lieutenant General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha, formerly head of military operations, was named director general of the ISI late Monday, a terse military statement announced. He replaces Lieutenant General Nadeem Taj.
The move is part of a major shake-up of the army's top brass after US, Afghan and Indian officials alleged in recent months that the shadowy organisation was complicit in the Taliban insurgency wracking the region.
Pasha is considered to be a close aide to the relatively reformist Pakistani military chief Ashfaq Kayani, who ran the ISI until October 2007. Taj, by contrast, was a key lieutenant of former president Pervez Musharraf.
The army insisted the 14 new appointments announced on Monday were routine.
"These were the changes due over a period of time. This is how the system works in the army," chief military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP.
But movements in Pakistan's military and intelligence services are closely watched by the United States and other allies for signs of the nuclear-armed nation's stability and commitment to the "war on terror".
"The change comes at a time when there was a lot of talk about ISI in the Western media," security analyst Talat Masood, a retired Pakistan army general, told AFP.
"With the new ISI chief, General Kayani has completed a team of his choice. He will be able to now lead the army with greater confidence."
In his previous job, Pasha was responsible for military offensives against Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan and the troubled tribal belt bordering Afghanistan.
The ISI has helped capture or kill hundreds of senior Al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan since Musharraf joined the "war on terror" in 2001, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed 9/11 mastermind.
But many Western officials suspect that, having helped to create Afghanistan's hardline 1996-2001 Taliban regime, the organisation is still playing a double game.
In August, the NATO commander in Afghanistan, US General David D. McKiernan, told AFP there "certainly is a level of ISI complicity" in Taliban militancy along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Whether US forces should strike militant targets in Pakistan if the ISI and other agencies fail to do so has become an issue in the US election race, with Democratic candidate Barack Obama backing such attacks.
Afghanistan, which is supposed to be Pakistan's ally against extremism, and India, Islamabad's historic foe, accused the ISI of involvement in the deadly bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul in July.
Pakistan strongly denies any such links, although Musharraf admitted in 2006 that some retired Pakistani intelligence officers may have been abetting extremists.
The ISI is feared at home as it plays a central, although covert, political role in a country that has spent more than half of its 61-year history under military rule.
The change in the ISI comes after the government led by President Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, tried to put the elite agency under the control of the interior ministry in July.
That move was hastily withdrawn after a protest by Pakistan's powerful military establishment.
In theory ISI works under the control of the prime minister, but in practice its functions are mainly run by Pakistan's pervasive security set-up.
ref:France 24 | Pakistan replaces chief of powerful spy agency | France 24
a good video below click:
Pakistan Playing a Double Game? Capital Talk Sept 15th 2008 - Video/pakistan_playing_a_double_game_capital_talk_sept_15th_2008/
keysersoze Sir,
I dont agree with your comment that NATO forces dont have approperiate equipments to fight with talaban effectively.
I think NATO need to learn the difference between the victory and strategic victory.
They got victory by use of their fire power but they could not sustain their victory due to poor strategy ,which need some thing more then number of armed personals ,latest equipments etc.
You should accept ground reality that talaban defeated NATO by better strategy and very high level of sacrifice.
NATO have to do much more to continue their control over Kabul .Honey Moon period is now over.
May be NATO armed forces dont have good brains because good brains are going towards science fields .