Pakistan Trying to Broker Afghan Deal
16 June 2010
Pakistan Trying to Broker Afghan Deal, DAWN, 16 June 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistan has dived headlong into the Afghanistan reconciliation process by taking on the task of acting as a bridge between the Haqqani network and the government in Kabul, Dawn has learnt. 'Preliminary contacts have been established with Siraj Haqqani and other leaders of his group through intermediaries in a bid to engineer a rapprochement with the Karzai administration,'...
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Ignatieff Calls for Afghan Training Past 2011
16 June 2010
Ignatieff Calls for Afghan Training Past 2011, CBC News, 16 June 2010
EXCERPT: "Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says Canada should commit its military to training Afghanistan's police and soldiers after its combat mission in Kandahar ends in 2011. It marks the first time the Liberal leader has publicly stated his position on what role Canada's soldiers should have in Afghanistan beyond next summer. In a speech in Toronto,...
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Kyrgyzstan's Ethnic Clashes and the Afghanistan Surge
16 June 2010
Kyrgyzstan's Ethnic Clashes and the Afghanistan Surge, World Politics Review, 16 June 2010
EXCERPT: "The ethnic clashes between Kyrgyzs and Uzbeks in Osh indicate that the power struggle between supporters of former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev -- forced out in a violent coup in April -- and the interim government of President Roza Otunbayeva, a key figure in that uprising, is far from over. Otunbayeva's government has continued to honor...
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Concern Grows Over US Strategy in Afghanistan
16 June 2010
Concern Grows Over US Strategy in Afghanistan, NPR, 16 June 2010
EXCERPT: "When President Obama announced the new counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan in early December, critics and supporters described the plan as ambitious and optimistic. But now questions are growing over whether the new strategy to turn things around there is working. Gen. David Petraeus, the head of U.S. Central Command, is scheduled to return to the...
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