Pakistan To Get $140 Million For Sheltering Refugees
13 March 2009
'Pakistan To Get $140 Million For Sheltering Refugees', Reuters India, 13 March 2009
EXCERPT: "Pakistani villages hosting Afghan refugees will get $140 million to help them cope in exchange for letting the displaced people stay for nearly four more years, a United Nations agency said on Friday. A resurgence of violence along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border has hindered efforts to repatriate nearly 2 million Afghans, leading...
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UNSG Recommends Mission Extension
13 March 2009
'UN Mission In Afghanistan Needs Another 12 Months, Ban Says', M&C, 13 March 2009
EXCERPT: "General Ban Ki-moon asked the UN Security Council on Friday to extend the mandate of the UN mission in Afghanistan another 12 months so it can assist Kabul in the critical elections in August. He said the UN mission will set up a political-electoral unit to work with Afghan political parties, civil society and the candidates to prepare...
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Afghanistan Won't Be Stable By Canadian Deadline: General
13 March 2009
'Afghanistan Won't Be Stable By Canadian Deadline, General Says', The London Free Press, 13 March 2009
EXCERPT: "The job of bringing stability to Afghanistan won't be finished in 2011 when Canada is scheduled to withdraw its troops, one of the country's best-known generals said in London today. Continued international support well beyond that date will be required to give Afghans a chance to rebuild their country,...
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New US Administration, New Directions
13 March 2009
'', International Crisis Group, 13 March 2009
EXCERPT: "Seven years after the U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan the country is still at war against extremists and has developed few resilient institutions. A policy review by the Obama administration has reopened debate about how to defeat the forces of violent global jihadism ? al-Qaeda and its Taliban protectors ? in Afghanistan and...
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