Pakistan Urges Karzai to Drop US, Ally with Islamabad, Beijing
27 April 2011
Pakistan is lobbying Afghanistan's president against building a long-term strategic partnership with the U.S., urging him instead to look to Pakistan—and its Chinese ally—for help in striking a peace deal with the Taliban and rebuilding the economy, Afghan officials say.The pitch was made at an April 16 meeting in Kabul by Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who bluntly told Afghan President Hamid Karzai that the Americans had...
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Interpol Blasts Afghan Security after Jailbreak
27 April 2011
Afghanistan's failure to keep photographs, fingerprints and DNA of convicts who escaped from prison this week poses a major threat to global anti-terrorism efforts, international police agency Interpol said on Wednesday. Taliban insurgents organised a daring jailbreak in the southern Afghan town of Kandahar on Monday, freeing some 500 prisoners including convicted terrorists by digging a tunnel from a nearby house. Interpol said Afghan authorities...
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Afghanistan, Pakistan Border Clashes Continue, Kill One
27 April 2011
Afghan border guards fired mortar shells toward a Pakistani military post in a northwestern tribal region on Wednesday, killing a soldier and wounding two others, a Pakistani government official said. The mortars also wounded at least six local residents and damaged dozens of shops in the Angore Adda town of the South Waziristan [...] The latest clash came a day after Pakistani and Afghan forces traded artillery fire in the neighboring North Waziristan...
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Gen. Petraeus Set to Lead CIA as Panetta Moves to Head Pentagon
27 April 2011
Major changes in leadership of the United States national security apparatus will move CIA director Leon Panetta into the job of Defense Secretary and Gen. David Petraeus, currently commanding forces in Afghanistan, to the helm of the CIA, sources confirm to ABC News. The announcements are formally expected Thursday. Both positions require Congressional approval, but are unlikely to run into much difficulty. After weeks of discussions, President...
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Afghan Military Officer Kills US Troops at Kabul Airport
27 April 2011
Eight American troops and a U.S. contractor died Wednesday after an Afghan military pilot opened fire during a meeting at Kabul airport — the deadliest episode to date of an Afghan turning against his coalition partners, officials said.The Afghan officer, who was a veteran military pilot, fired on the Americans after an argument, the Afghan Defense Ministry said. [...] The shooting occurred in an operations room of the Afghan Air Corps at Kabul...
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