October 10, 2007, 2:24 pm
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Why Afghans are saying, 'Bring back the Russians'
In January 2002, only two months after the Taliban were overthrown, Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan from Herat to Kabul. He had previously served in the British foreign service and the British army. In 2003, at age 30, he became the coalition
Where are we at in Afghanistan Today
"The ground realities as reported by non-Muslims writers and analysts confirm that Taliban were the least evil then and they are the least evil today. Most unfortunately, as Muslim writers, we are damned if we draw a similar conclusion."
Afghanistan and Iraq: it’s the same war
the Security Council resolutions of September 2001 never mention Afghanistan, much less authorize an attack on it. That’s why the attack on Afghanistan was also a supreme international crime, which killed at least 20,000 innocent civilians in its fir
Fencing across the border: who is fooling who?
To assuage international concerns over cross border filtration into Afghanistan, the Pakistani government has announced a series of measures. To assuage international concerns over cross border filtration into Afghanistan, the Pakistani government ha
Consequences of the War on Afghanistan
The world has to lift the veil of the so-called democracy and expose the true face of the religious wars waged by the modern-day crusaders. The apparently secular politicians and media pundits are purely motivated by religious devotion and fervor. It
Archieve
  1 - Crux of the matter on the U.S. Occupation of Afghanistan
  2 - Legitimacy of the War and Occupation
  3 - War on Afghanistan: Contrary to commonsense
  4 - US encourages the Talibanisation of Afghanistan
  5 - Mile by Miles, Afghan Quagmire is Expanding
  6 - Karzai: Voicing his masters
  7 - The Issue is Islam, Not the Taliban
  8 - An Option for the Taliban
  9 - Bombing is no argument
  10 - Leave Afghanistan alone
  11 - Taliban's overdue recognition
  12 - The Perils of Obedience
  13 - Recognizing the reality of rouges
  14 - Morbid Dread of the Taliban
  15 - Diggers of a common grave
  16 - Attention, Security Council
  17 - Blowing statues vs satanic savagery
  18 - The Pan-Islamic Alternative
  19 - From Relief to Reconstruction
  20 - Reject UN Sanctions
  21 - Winning hearts vs destroying enemy
  22 - Religious parties at the crossroads
  23 - Tangled in the American web
  24 - A lesson from the Taliban saga
  25 - A lesson for our English Press
  26 - Chaos reigns supreme in Afghanistan
  27 - Islamophobia in Pakistani Press
POINTS TO PONDER
US-NATO Crimes Against Humanity
Abid Ullah Jan
It is very distressing to see some of the highest level of US officials made legal arguments that were rejected by the Nuremberg Tribunal. They went on with it. Launched a war of aggression and continue occupation of Afghanistan with horrible consequ
Consequences of the War on Afghanistan
Abid Ullah Jan
The world has to lift the veil of the so-called democracy and expose the true face of the religious wars waged by the modern-day crusaders. The apparently secular politicians and media pundits are purely motivated by religious devotion and fervor. It
Crux of the matter on the U.S. Occupation of Afghanistan
Abid Ullah jan
It is evident from the discussion in the introduction of this book that the United States could not possibly decide on and launch a war of aggression against Afghanistan in a matter of 25 days. Planning and implementing an invasion of this scale take
Illegality of the war on Afghanistan
Abid Ullah Jan
Right after the staged 9/11 attacks, in a statement from Florida Bush called the events an act of terrorism. However, there is no generally accepted definition of an act of terrorism under international law, mainly for the reason that state actors, s
Lost between the fact and fiction on Afghanistan
Abid Ullah Jan
The Western world remained lost between the fact and fiction about the Taliban. Strategic interests clearly seem to have motivated what the Guardian referred to as “the generally approving line that U.S. officials take towards the Taliban.” CNN repor
Avoiding the Real Issue on Afghanistan
Abid Ullah Jan
The Taliban were blamed for harboring Osama bin Laden. However, the never-ending propaganda could hardly point to the fact that following the 1989 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Afghan-Arabs, including Osama, began drifting back to their hom