Taliban may not be interested,but Pakistan will be interested .It is the only way to keep itself busy in interfering in Afghan affairs.
Even otherwise ISI which is an extra constitutional authority in Pakistan would definitely be interested either overtly or covertly in getting a hold in Afghanistan.
US must ensure that Pakistan is pressurized into not entering an arrangement with Afghanistan.Remember Pakistan’s deal with Waziristan.
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President Obama and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency both reacted with skepticism on Sunday about the prospects for an Afghanistan peace deal pushed by Pakistan between the Afghan government and some Taliban militants.
While Mr. Obama said a political solution to the conflict was necessary and suggested elements of the Taliban insurgency could be part of negotiations, he said any such effort must be viewed with caution. The C.I.A. director, Leon E. Panetta, was even more forceful in expressing his doubts. http://ramanisblog.in/wp-admin/post-new.php
True.The poster should be for all Islamic nations that promote terror and fundamentalism.
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France’s National Front party is plastering this image around the country in the hope of gaining some votes for the upcoming regional elections. A woman wearing the niqab, minarets turned missiles, a clear “No to Islamism”, and France draped in… the Algerian flag. A rather specific choice, and one that hasn’t gone down well in the North African country.
( No to Islamism,Youth with Le Perl)
The poster, marketing the far-right group’s youth faction, seems to have taken its inspiration from a campaign by Switzerland’s far-right Swiss People’s Party (UDC), which aims to outlaw minarets. The UDC is now threatening to sue its fellow extremists in France, for “stealing” the design.
It’s not only the Swiss who are outraged by the poster – two anti-racism organisations in France (Mrap and SOS-Racisme) have started criminal proceedings against the leader of the National Front (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen, who will appear in court on May 6 over the poster’s design.
In Algeria meanwhile, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mourad Medelci has publicly protested the use of the country’s national flag, asking its former colonial ruler to “take firm measures to prevent the symbols of foreign nations from being insulted”.
“It’s outrageous to limit the ‘Islamist’ threat to only my country”
Abdelkrim Mekfouldji is a French teacher and retired journalist from Blida, Algeria.
This doesn’t surprise me coming from Jean-Marie Le Pen, but it’s still hard for us to see it. It’s outrageous to limit the ‘Islamist’ threat to only my country, as though it comes exclusively from here. In fact, the countries where the threat is strongest are Pakistan and Afghanistan, which aren’t even part of the Arab world. On top of that, the FN is forgetting that many of the Muslims here who have Algerian origins are actually of French nationality.
Next up – the threatening looking woman wearing the niqab looks nothing like an Algerian woman. It’s very rare to see a women dressed like that here.
Not many Algerians have heard about this yet. It has been mentioned in the papers, but once everyone gets wind of it, then the relations between the two countries are going to get very sour very quickly. It wasn’t long ago that France refused to compensate victims of the Reggane nuclear tests [taken out in the south of the country in the 1960s].
The real problem is that this controversy is a blessing for our politicians, who are looking for something to avert our attention away from the current social crisis [teachers and doctors are on strike], which they haven’t yet found a solution for.”
Ill considered and dastardly move.Remember Pakistan’s ‘Deal’ with SWAT’ area?What came of it? more bombings-What of LTTE truce?-you allowed them to regroup.
Recall Chamberlain?Result ,Hitler over ran Europe.
Go after terrorists hammer and tongs with these killers;any negotiation shall weaken the State and embolden the terrorists.Most importantly, the war has to be fought by Afghans by themselves with hardware from other Nations and at the same time economic inequalities must be addressed to and a reformist agenda is to be put in place by the Islamic moderates to wean youngsters from joining the fundamentalists by propagating moderate Islam.
Involving Foreigners shall alienate the people and the menace of Terrorism shall grow beyond manageable proportion
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LONDON — Afghanistan’s president declared Thursday that reaching out to the Taliban’s leadership would be a centerpiece of his plan to end the eight-year-old war in his country, setting in motion a risky diplomatic gambit that could aggravate frictionswith the United States.
A 65-nation conference here intended to muster money and support for an Afghan war strategy instead exposed divisions between the Afghan government and its allies over the timetable for drawing down foreign forces and whether and how to reconcile with the leaders of the Taliban insurgency.
“We must reach out to all of our countrymen, especially our disenchanted brothers,” President Hamid Karzai said. In the coming weeks, he said, he will invite Taliban leaders to a tribal assembly to try to persuade them to lay down their weapons and join the government.
Mr. Karzai’s proposal went much further than the strategy preferred by many American officials, who favor luring back low- and midlevel Taliban fighters. The Obama administration is in the middle of a spirited debate over the implications of negotiating with top Taliban leaders who sheltered Osama bin Laden and still have ties to Al Qaeda. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/world/asia/29diplo.html
When things seem to be looking up disclosures of this nature crops up.Intended leaks by vested interests?
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KABUL, Afghanistan — An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base.
Notes from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other areas of conflict in the post-9/11 era.
The site, known to detainees as the black jail, consists of individual windowless concrete cells, each illuminated by a single light bulb glowing 24 hours a day. In interviews, former detainees said that their only human contact was at twice-daily interrogation sessions. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/world/asia/29bagram.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a1
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