Taliban Leader Flaunts Power Inside Pakistan
02 June 2008
'', New York Times, 2 June 2008
EXCERPT: "With great fanfare, the Pakistani Army flew journalists to a rugged corner of the nation's lawless tribal areas in May to show how decisively it had destroyed the lairs of the Taliban, including a school for suicide bombers, in fighting early this year. Then, just days later, the usually reclusive leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, held...
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Program Aims To Vaccinate A Million Afghanistan Children
02 June 2008
'Program Aims To Vaccinate A Million Afghanistan Children', CBC News, 1 June 2008
EXCERPT: "The United Nations children's agency and the World Health Organization have begun a three-day campaign to vaccinate more than a million children against polio in southern Afghanistan. At one of the clinics that opened Sunday [1 June 2008], women in burkas brought their children to a small table outside the hospital in downtown Kandahar. There,...
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Despair Mounts In Afghan Food Crisis
02 June 2008
'Despair Mounts In Afghan Food Crisis', Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2008
EXCERPT: "Faced with skyrocketing food prices and no job, Mohammad Daud decided he had suffered enough. The 27-year-old swallowed 100 sleeping pills and died. His decision late last month reflects panic in this war-torn country over the price of food, especially wheat, the staple of the Afghan diet. Afghanistan, landlocked and drought-ridden, depends on aid and food...
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Japan May Send Troops To Afghanistan: PM
02 June 2008
'', Agence France Presse, 1 June 2008
EXCERPT: "Japan is considering whether to send its first troops to Afghanistan on a reconstruction mission, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Sunday [1 June 2008]. Tokyo has been a major donor to Afghanistan, pledging 1.3 billion dollars since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001. However, its pacifist constitution limits its military activities, and it does...
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Estonians Ready for Battle in Afghanistan
02 June 2008
'Estonians Ready for Battle in Afghanistan's "Hell Land"', Deutsche Welle, 1 June 2008
EXCERPT: "Estonia's unit in Afghanistan may be small, but it's already seen plenty of action and suffered several casualties. As a new member of NATO, it feels responsible to the military alliance. The desert landscape shudders to explosions of mortar and rocket shells, small arms fire and grenade blasts as the Estonian troops stage final...
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Danish Soldiers Remain In Afghanistan After Embassy Blast
02 June 2008
'Denmark Soldiers On In Afghanistan After Embassy Blast', M&C, 2 June 2008
EXCERPT: "As Denmark's government on Monday considered its response to the bombing of its embassy in Pakistan, more than 600 Danish soldiers in neighbouring Afghanistan would continue operations against Taliban militants undeterred, their commander said. The car bomb attack that killed at least six people and injured two dozen followed warnings by intelligence...
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Jalozai Camp Closed, Returnees Face Difficulties At Home
02 June 2008
Jalozai Camp Closed, Returnees Face Difficulties At Home', Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), 2 June 2008
EXCERPT: "The once largest Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Jalozai, has been closed down and most of its residents have returned to Afghanistan, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said. More than 120,000 Afghan refugees have been repatriated from Pakistan, almost half from Jalozai,...
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Canada To Send Chinooks, Unmanned Planes To Afghanistan
02 June 2008
'Canada To Send Chinooks, Unmanned Planes To Afghanistan', Reuters Canada, 31 May 2008
EXCERPT: "Canada will move helicopters and unmanned aircraft to Afghanistan to increase surveillance of roads, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said on Saturday, as the Taliban stepped up attacks in spite of a large NATO force in the country. Canadian troops are based in the southern province of Kandahar and have seen some of the highest casualties as...
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US Calls Frontier Areas Key Points To Win War On Terror
02 June 2008
'US Calls Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier Areas Key Points To Win War On Terror', Thaindian News, 2 June 2008
EXCERPT: "US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has reportedly said that the frontier areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan were the most pressing points where the US must win its war on terror. According to a BBC report, Chertoff said that successes against Al Qaeda (in Iraq ) should not lead to a weakening of the resolve...
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"I Wish I Had the Taliban as My Soldiers": Karzai
02 June 2008
'"I Wish I Had the Taliban as My Soldiers": Karzai', Spiegel Online, 2 June 2008
EXCERPT: "President Hamid Karzai has come under fire for not doing enough to stem corruption in Afghanistan. He speaks to SPIEGEL about the coalition forces' ties with warlords, rumors about his family's influence and why he believes dirty deals are sometimes necessary.
"SPIEGEL: Mr. President, much has been written about the failures of...
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